Stefan Kazó
Stefan Kazó (* around 1655 in Steinamanger ; † August 8, 1721 in Fünfkirchen ) was a theologian , archdeacon and titular bishop .
Life
Stefan Kazó, also written István Kazó, Ištvan Kázó, Stephan Kazo, or Štefan Kazo, first attended the Latin school at the Episcopal Seminary in Raab / Győr and then completed a theology degree at the Pazmaneum in Vienna . He then moved to Graz , where he received his doctorate in theology in 1680 .
Further stations in his professional career were: Provost of Eisenburg / Vasvár , Abbot of Kapornak, Beneficiary of Ödenburg / Sopron , Archdeacon of Eisenburg and at the same time pastor of Steinamanger / Szombathely.
In 1700 Kazó exchanged the Eisenburg provosty for that of Fünfkirchen / Pécs, where he was also appointed titular bishop of Belgrade about two years later . Stefan Kazó worked in Fünfkirchen until his death in 1721.
Visitatio Kazoiana 1698
On July 7, 1696, Stefan Kazó, as Archdeacon of Eisenburg, received the order from Leopold I, King of Hungary , to conduct a church visit in the area of the Eisenburg County . Kazó was only able to tackle this task from February 10, 1697 after consultation and in agreement with the responsible bishop of Raab , Prince Christian August of Saxony .
In the period from February 23 to April 16, 1697 and from October 9, 1697 to March 28, 1698, the 42 year old Kazó personally visited the county and inspected a total of 663 parish and church locations.
Kazó's handwritten visitation protocols have been preserved and are now in the diocese archive in Szombathely / Steinamanger. The visit reports are of eminent importance for the topography of the former Eisenburg County with the former parts in Burgenland and the Slovenian Übermur region / Prekmurje and represent a valuable historical source for these regions.
The visitation records, written in Latin , provide information about the parishes , pastors and patron saints , about ecclesiastical institutions, schools and religious folk customs and provide information about the population in national and denominational terms.
literature
- Ivan Zelko : Statistika prebivalstva v Prekmurju leta 1698 , in: Zgodovina Prekmurja , Pomurska založba, Murska Sobota, 1996, ISBN 86-7195-203-7 .
- Ivan Zelko: Kanonična vizitacija - Visitatio Kazoiana 1698 , in: Acta Ecclesiastica Sloveniae . Vol. 5, Ljubljana, 1983.
- Josef Karl Homma : The change in the population as well as in the national and confessional population structure of today's southern Burgenland in the time from the implementation of the canonical visitation of Stefan Kazó (1697/98) to the Austrian census in 1961 , in: Gedenkschrift für Harold Steinacker , book series of the Southeast German Historical Commission , Volume 16, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich, 1966.
- Jenő Házi: The canonical visitation of Stefan Kazó, archdeacon of Eisenburg (Vasvár), in Burgenland, part of Eisenburg County, in the years 1697 - 1698 . in: Burgenland Research , Issue 37, Eisenstadt, 1958.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kazó, Stefan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kazó, István |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Theologian, archdeacon and titular bishop |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1655 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steinamanger |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 8, 1721 |
| Place of death | Five churches |