Franz Xaver Nagl

Franz Xaver (Mary) Kardinal Nagl (* November 26, 1855 in Vienna, † February 4, 1913 ibid ) was Archbishop of Vienna.

Life

Franz Xaver Nagl Maria received on 14 July 1878, the sacrament of Holy Orders. Subsequently, he was a chaplain in Amstetten. Later he studied in Frintaneum in Vienna and in Rome and graduated in 1883 with a doctorate in theology from. He then spent two years as a professor at the seminary in St. Pölten and was then court and castle parish appointed as chaplain to the imperial Vienna. In 1887 he was rector of the Spiritual Fritaneum, from March 14, 1889 rector of the college of Santa Maria dell'Anima in Rome.

On March 26, 1902, he was appointed bishop of the diocese of Trieste- Capo d'Istria and on January 1, 1910 Titular Archbishop of Tyre and Koadjutorerzbischof the Archdiocese of Vienna with the right of succession for the almost blind and deaf Cardinal Joseph Anton Gruscha. On August 5, 1911, the appointment as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna took place. On November 27, 1911, he was accepted as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Marco in the College of Cardinals.

He led the renovation and expansion of a former orphanage in Boltzmanngasse ( Vienna's 9th district ) in which starting from 1914 ( according to Nagl's death), the Vienna seminary was housed.

The Kardinal-Nagl -Platz in the 3rd district highway and indirectly a subway station of line U3 are named after him.