Peter Funder

Peter Funder

Peter Funder (born October 30, 1820 in Waisach near Greifenburg , † October 1, 1886 in Klagenfurt ) was Bishop of Gurk .

Life

Bishop Funder's burial site

Peter Funder was born in Upper Carinthia, more precisely in the village of Bruggen near Greifenburg, as the son of a landowner and innkeeper. He attended the grammar school in Klagenfurt and then entered the Klagenfurt seminary. He was ordained a priest on July 31, 1844 . He then worked as a parish provisional in Gnesau, Lieseregg and Feldkirchen. In 1851 he came back to Klagenfurt and taught religion and Latin at a grammar school as a Latinist. In 1854 he became a preacher at the parish church of St. Egid, and two years later he became vice director of the seminary. In 1865 Bishop Valentin Wiery brought him to the Episcopal Palace as Ordinary Chancellor , and in 1880 he became Chapter Vicar .

On March 30, 1881, Emperor Franz Joseph I appointed him Bishop of Gurk, and on April 25, he was consecrated by Salzburg's Archbishop Franz Albert Eder . On July 10, 1881, he was enthroned in Klagenfurt Cathedral .

In 1883 the emperor drove through Carinthia on his return from Carniola and was received by Bishop Funder. On another trip through, this time from Tyrol to Vienna, in 1886 Franz Joseph I was greeted again by the Gurk bishop near St. Veit an der Glan.

After a short reign, the bishop died of a hernia in 1886. He was buried on the church wall in Klagenfurt's St. Ruprecht cemetery.

literature

• Jakob Obersteiner: The bishops of Gurk. 1824–1979 (= From Research and Art. 22, ISSN  0067-0642 ). Publishing house of the History Association for Carinthia, Klagenfurt 1980.

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