Roman Sebastian Zängerle

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Roman Sebastian Zängerle (also: Franz Xaver Sebastian Zängerle ) (born January 20, 1771 in Oberkirchberg near Ulm , † April 27, 1848 in Graz ) was a Catholic theologian, professor and from 1824 Prince-Bishop of the Seckau diocese .

Roman Sebastian Zängerle, contemporary lithograph

education

Franz Xaver (so the baptismal name) Sebastian Zängerle was the ninth of ten children of the soap boiler and trader Johann Zängerle and his wife Elisabeth, née Brotam, widowed Tangel. His place of birth Oberkirchberg belonged to the front of Austria at that time . From 1788 he attended grammar school at the Benedictine monastery in Wiblingen . In 1792 he settled the Benedictines the profession and received the religious name Roman . After studying at the collegiate college, he was ordained a priest on December 21, 1793 in Constance . He then worked at the collegiate high school and at the collegiate college as a professor of hermeneutics . After further studies and an exam at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau , he became a full professor of Holy Scripture . He taught in the Benedictine monasteries of Wiblingen and Mehrerau . In Wiblingen, where he had been novice master since 1798 , he also took over the monastery parish in 1801.

The academic teacher

1803 he was appointed to the Benedictine University of Salzburg , where he became doctor of philosophy and a doctorate in theology doctorate was and Chair of Oriental received languages and Scriptures and also for the subject of pastoral theology was responsible. He was also an academic preacher and supervisor of religious congregations .

In 1806 the Wiblingen Monastery was secularized and fell to the Kingdom of Württemberg . In this context, some of the Benedictines from Wiblingen moved to the Archabbey of Tyniec in Galicia . Zängerle also followed this call and became professor of Biblical Greek and the New Testament in Cracow in 1807 . As Krakow in 1809 was Polish, had to be abandoned Tyniec, and Zängerle came after stopovers in 1811 by Prague , where he attended the local university professor was of the Scriptures. Two years later he took over the chair for the New Testament at the University of Vienna .

Although he knew the Protestant Bible exegesis and used it as a teacher, he never had problems with the church authorities. He finally belonged to the circle around the later canonized Redemptorist, anti- Enlightenment activist and representative of a romantic Catholicism, Klemens Maria Hofbauer , the "Apostle of Vienna". In 1821, as his Benedictine community was now dispersed, he was released from religious vows.

As a prince-bishop a religious innovator

On May 18, 1824, Salzburg's Prince Archbishop Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber nominated him as Prince-Bishop of Seckau and, at the same time, as Administrator of the Diocese of Leoben with a bishopric in Graz . The episcopal ordination by Archbishop Gruber took place on September 12, the enthronement on October 31, 1824. During the following 24-year episcopate, he worked with great zeal for the spiritual renewal of the two districts , especially the world clergy . 1825-28 went on visitation trips . Although loyal to the imperial family, he fought the state sovereignty and had to experience a number of disputes in this context. In doing so, he succeeded in asserting the episcopal leadership claim over the Graz seminary against the state. He also tried to achieve greater compliance in the monasteries of his two districts, but not always with success. So he also relied on new orders and in 1825 brought the Redemptorists for several settlements in his area. In 1832 he won the Jesuits for Graz. More monasteries by male and female observance followed by 1845 . He also promoted religious brotherhoods and the Third Order . In denominational issues, e.g. B. in the mixed marriages question, he uncompromisingly represented the positions of the Roman Curia . His loyalty to Rome brought him praise from Pope Gregory XVI at the celebration of his golden jubilee as a priest in 1843 . a.

From 1845 he suffered from gout . He died of pneumonia and was buried in the crypt of Graz Cathedral . He bequeathed a number of scriptures, particularly fasting and other sermons.

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predecessor Office successor
Simon Melchior de Petris Bishop of Seckau
1824 - 1848 		Josef IV. Othmar von Rauscher
personal data
SURNAME Zängerle, Sebastian Roman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zängerle, Franz Xaver Sebastian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince-Bishop of the Diocese of Graz-Seckau; Administrator of Leoben
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberkirchberg
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1848
Place of death Graz