Stefan Pacha

Stefan Pacha (born September 5, 1859 in Moritzfeld , Austrian Empire ; † November 15, 1924 in Timișoara , Kingdom of Romania ) was a Banat Swabian Roman Catholic abbot pastor and dean . He was the older brother of the first bishop of Timisoara, Augustin Pacha .

Life

Stefan Pacha's father, the shoemaker Marian Pacha, was born in Petersdorf in Bohemia and settled in Moritzfeld in 1838. The grandparents of his mother Elisabetha (née Halsdorfer) in Moritzfeld came in 1786 from the area around Trier as colonists in the town in the Banat . From 1865 to 1870 Pacha first attended elementary school in Moritzfeld / Móricföld, then from 1870 to 1878 the Piarist high school in Temesvár .

On 29 June 1883 he was awarded the Cathedral Temesvár the priesthood . In his ecclesiastical career he held the office of chaplain in Apátfalva , Józsefváros (German Josefstadt ) and Gyárváros (factory town) from 1883 to 1887 . He then taught as a catechist in Nagybecskerek (Großbetschkerek) until 1890 . After that he was director of the diocese's printing house until 1900. In the “ Dechanat Nagyszentmiklós ” (Grand Saint Nicholas) he took over the office of dean and pastor from 1900 to 1908 . His next appointment came in 1904 as " Abbot of the Holy Cross". From 1908 until his death Temesvár - Gyárváros / Fabric (factory town) was the place of activity of the abbot pastor.

literature

• Anton P. Petri: Home book of the German community Moritzfeld in the Banat. Heimatsortsgemeinschaft, Moritzfeld 1986, ISBN 3-922046-53-3 .