Franz Xaver Luschin
Franz Xaver Luschin | |
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Metropolitan Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gorizia and Gradisca | |
Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Appointed | 6 April 1835 |
Term ended | 2 May 1854 |
Predecessor | Joseph Walland |
Successor | Andreas Gollmayr |
Other post(s) | Rector of University of Graz (1815–1816) Diocesan Bishop of Trento (1824–1834) Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv and Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria (1834–1835) |
Orders | |
Ordination | 26 August 1804 (Priest) |
Consecration | 3 October 1824 (Bishop) by Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber |
Personal details | |
Born | Franz Xaver Luschin 3 December 1781 |
Died | 2 May 1854 Gorizia, Austrian Empire (present day in Italy) | (aged 72)
Archbishop Franz Xaver Luschin (Slovene: Franc Ksaver Lušin; 3 December 1781 – 2 May 1854) was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a Diocesan Bishop of Trento from 24 May 1824 until 23 June 1834, a Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria from 23 June 1834 until 6 April 1835 and a Metropolitan Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gorizia and Gradisca from 6 April 1835 his death on 2 May 1854.
Life
Archbishop Luschin was born in the wealthy peasant family of Carinthian Slovenes in Tainach (present day a part of town Völkermarkt). After graduation of the gymnasium and lyceum education, he subsequently joined the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Klagenfurt[1] and was ordained as priest on August 26, 1804, for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk[2] after completed his a philosophical and theological studies.[3]
After his ordination, he served as an assistant priest in Klagenfurt from 1804 until 1808, he continued his studies in the University of Vienna with Doctor of Sacred Theology degree in 1813. He became a professor in a University of Graz, and in 1815–1816, for one year, become a Rector. In 1820 he was appointed a referent in ecclesiastical affairs for the Tyrolean government in Innsbruck.[3]
On May 24, 1824, he was confirmed by the Pope Leo XII as a Diocesan Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Trento, that was vacant for last six years. On October 3, 1824, he was consecrated as a bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber without co-consecrators.[2] Here he worked not only in the solution of an ecclesiastical questions, but also in an economic problems.[1]
On June 23, 1834, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and the second Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria in a present-day Ukraine, but he immediately realised that he would not be able to control the difficult situation, as there were strong tensions between the Latin-rite Catholics and the united Ruthenians. So he immediately asked to be transferred to an another see, and 1 year later, on April 6, 1835, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Metropolitan Archbishop of then vacant Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gorizia and Gradisca.[3]
Archbishop Luschin died, while in the office, on May 2, 1854, in Gorizia, Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca and was buried in the crypt of the local metropolitan chapel.[3]
References
- ^ a b "LUSCHIN FRANCESCO SAVERIO". Dizionario biografico dei friulani (in Italian). Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Archbishop Franz Xavier (Franciszek Ksawery) Luschin (Luszin) †". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Архієпископ Франциск Ксаверій Лушин". rkc.in.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 16 May 2018.
- 1781 births
- 1854 deaths
- Carinthian Slovenes
- People from Völkermarkt District
- Prince-Bishops of Trent
- University of Vienna alumni
- University of Graz faculty
- Slovenian Roman Catholic archbishops
- Austrian Roman Catholic bishops
- Archbishops of Lviv
- 19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops
- Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
- Ukrainian Roman Catholic archbishops