Otto Zardetti

Otto Zardetti and other clergymen (1890)

Johann Joseph Friedrich Otto Zardetti (born January 24, 1847 in Rorschach , † May 9, 1902 in Rome ) was a Swiss theologian and archbishop .

Life

Otto Zardetti was ordained a priest on August 21, 1870 . From 1876 to 1881 he was the resident canon of the diocese of St. Gallen . On October 3, 1889, he was appointed Bishop of Saint Cloud . He received his episcopal ordination from the Archbishop of Oregon City , William Hickley Gross CSsR , on October 20 of the same year; Co-consecrators were the bishop of St. Gallen , Augustin Egger , and the bishop of Basel and Lugano , Leonhard Haas .

On March 6, 1894, Zardetti was appointed Archbishop of Bucharest, but renounced the archbishopric with effect from May 25, 1895. Finally in 1895 he became titular archbishop of Mocissus and papal assistant to the throne . In 1895, a children's home in Little Falls was named St. Otto Orphan Asylum in honor of Zardetti .

Lilly Braumann-Honsell , a relative of Zardetti, describes "Uncle Otto" as the "image of a noble clergyman, a prince of the church [...] without any anointing and without any display of dignity" and as a "man of the world, elegant, agile, full of humor and tolerance, which was perhaps only apparent, but was pleasant in traffic ».

Archbishop Zardetti was buried on Pentecost Tuesday 1902 in the abbot's vault of Mehrerau Abbey.

Works

• Ten Pictures from Southern England or: Walks and Contemplations of a Catholic During a Visit to England. Benziger , Einsiedeln 1877
• The restoration of the pilgrimage church of the Holy Cross near St. Gallen. St. Gallen 1879
• The New World of North America viewed in the light of faith. Pulpit lecture given on September 26, 1880 after my return from my trip to the United States N.-A. (May to September) in the Cathedral of St. Gallen. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1880
• Requies S. Galli or Historical Illumination of the Cathedral of St. Gallus in the light of their own past. A commemorative publication for the golden jubilee of the priestly bishop of St.Gallen Dr. Karl Johann Greith on May 29, 1881. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1881
• Maryland, the cradle of Catholicism and the freedom of North America. Foesser, Frankfurt am Main 1881
• The ordination of bishops according to the teaching and liturgy of the Catholic Church. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1889
• The ordination of priests and their preparatory St. Consecration according to the teaching and liturgy of the catholic Church. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1890
• West! or through the far west of North America. Kirchheim, Mainz 1897
• Pulpit speeches. 16 selected sermons published from his estate. Manz, Regensburg 1906

literature

• FX Wetzel: Dr. Otto Zardetti, Archbishop of Mocissus. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1902.
• Vincent A. Yzermans: Frontier Bishop of Saint Cloud. Park Press, Waite Park 1988.

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Zardetti in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on Otto Zardetti on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 31, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Resident Canons. ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Diocese of St. Gallen 
2. ^ A brief history of the St. Cloud Children's Home ( Memento January 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Saint Cloud, Minnesota
3. ↑ Lilly Braumann-Honsell: Small world - big world. Konstanz 1938, p. 230

predecessor	Office	successor
Paolo Giuseppe Palma	Archbishop of Bucharest 1894–1895	Joseph-Xavier Hornstein
Rupert Seidenbusch OSB (Apostolic Vicar)	Bishop of Saint Cloud 1889-1894	Martin Marty OSB
Franz Anton Rohrer	Librarian from St. Gallen 1874–1876	Johann Nepomuk Idtensohn