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Alexander Bonnaz

Alexander Bonnaz (born August 11, 1812 in Challex , France ; † August 9, 1889 in Timisoara , Austria-Hungary , now Romania ) was bishop of the Csanád diocese .

Life

Childhood, adolescence and studies

Alexander Bonnaz saw the light of day in Challex , in the French diocese of Belley . His father, Jean Antoine Bonnaz, was a teacher and had served in Napoleon I's army as a lieutenant, his mother was Francoise Hugueniot zu Marongy. The father was killed in the Leipzig Battle of Nations in 1813, after which the mother and the 7-year-old boy moved to Hungary , where his grandfather's brother, Anton Bonnaz, was a pastor in Triebswetter ( Torontál County ) . He sent them the travel money, picked them up in Pest , and took them by stagecoach via Szeged and Groß-Sankt-Nikolaus to Triebswetter, where many French settlers had already settled. After primary school in Triebswetter, Alexander Bonnaz (1824–1831) attended grammar school in Arad , Timisoara and Szeged . From 1831 to 1833 he studied philosophy in Szeged and from 1833 to 1837 theology at the Vienna Pazmaneum , where he was a fellow student of the later Hungarian cardinals Ludwig Haynald and Johann Simor .

priest

On August 17, 1837, Alexander Bonnaz was ordained a priest by Bishop Lonovics in the cathedral church of Timisoara . Between 1837 and 1838 he worked as a chaplain in Karánsebes , and in 1838 as vice notary and recorder in the episcopal auditorium. 1839-1840 he was a professor of moral and pastoral theology at the seminary in Timisoara. From 1840 to 1853 he succeeded his great-uncle as pastor in Triebswetter. In 1850 he was appointed school inspector for the German and Magyar schools in the Voivodeship of Serbia and the Temescher Banat. After taking the oath of service he became consistorial assessor in 1851, governor's advisory council in 1853, canon of the Csanád diocese from 1853–1860 , and in 1854 with the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Iron Crown III. Class excellent. 1855-1860 he was a curator for the research and preservation of the monuments in the voivodeship of Serbia and Temescher Banat.

bishop

On June 7, 1860 Alexander Bonnaz was built by Emperor Franz Joseph I to Csanád bishop appointed. On September 28, the preconization took place by Pope Pius IX. took place, on November 4th the consecration by the Kalotscha Archbishop Jozef Kunszt and on December 18th, 1860 the enthronement in the cathedral church of Timisoara. Alexander Bonnaz stayed in Rome for four months in 1862 and was appointed Papal Assistant to the Throne by the Pope . In 1867 he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Iron Crown 1st Class and became a Real Privy Councilor. From 1869 to 1870 he took part in the Vatican Council . In 1870 he suffered a nervous breakdown from which he could no longer fully recover. From 1874 Auxiliary Bishop Josef Georg Németh was responsible for the episcopal agendas. During the time of his illness, Bonnaz often stayed in the Franciscan monastery of Maria Radna and in the German mountain village of Franzdorf . He died on August 9, 1889 in the bishop's palace and was buried in the cathedral crypt on August 12, 1889 . The funeral oration was given by the later Cardinal Lorenz Schlauch .

benefactor

Alexander Bonnaz was a great benefactor. With 100,000 guilders he donated two new canons, with a further 100,000 guilders he donated the boys' institute Emericaneum for students in the courtyard of the old seminary, and he gave the same amount to the clergy's pension fund. He used another 100,000 guilders to build new Notre Dame monastery schools . He had a mother house built for the school sisters in Josefstadt. Gymnasium and elementary school , teacher training institute and advanced training school , kindergarten and boarding school were housed in it. The street in front of this institute got his name. He also founded a Catholic girls' orphanage and had numerous schools and churches built. His donations and foundations exceeded 2 million guilders. Alexander Bonnaz has financed over 40 places of worship in the diocese of Csanád in whole or in part.

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predecessor Office successor
Alexander I. Csajághy Bishop of Csanád
1860 - 1889 		Alexander III Cserneki
personal data
SURNAME Bonnaz, Sándor II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonnaz, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of the Csanád diocese
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH Challex , France
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1889
Place of death Timisoara , Romania