Wlodimir Ledóchowski

Wladimir Ledochowski SJ ( born October 7, 1868 in Loos Village in St. Pölten, † December 13, 1942 in Rome) was a Polish nobleman and the 26th General of the Society of Jesus.

Life

Wladimir Ledochowski came from an old Polish and Austrian nobility. He was the brother of the blessed foundress Countess Maria Teresia Ledóchowska and the holy foundress Countess Ursula Ledóchowska and a nephew of Cardinal Mieczyslaw Halka Ledochowski.

In the years 1877-1884 Ledóchowski student was Theresianumgasse in Vienna while working as a page at the imperial court. After obtaining the Matura (Abitur ), he studied 1884/1885 | 85 Jura, also in Vienna. In the same year he joined the seminary in Tarnow. Between 1886 and 1889, studied philosophy at the Collegium Ledóchowski Germanicum et Hungaricum in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University Catholic theology. He completed his studies with a doctorate from phil. In 1889 he entered the seminary Starawies a near Cracow and received in 1894 the sacrament of Holy Orders. In 1900 he was appointed rector of the Jesuit College in Krakow. 1901 was promoted to Vice Provincial of the Galician provinces, in the following year he was promoted to Provincial these areas. He held until 1906 this office. On September 8, 1906, the newly elected General of the Order of Franz Xaver Wernz appointed him to the Order secretary at the Mother House of the Order.

As Wernz on August 19, 1914, died, the General Assembly of the Order Ledóchowski the 26th General of the Order. He took office in 1915. By entering the war in Italy in 1915 due, he outsourced the administration of the Order unceremoniously after Zizers near Chur in Switzerland. As the Vatican in 1918 published a revised canon law, let Ledóchowski 1923, the Order of legal align it. From 1938 he appointed the Vicar Maurice Schurmans to his assistant. At the age of 80 years, Count Wladimir Ledochowski died on 13 December 1942 in Rome. His successor was Jean Baptiste Janssens.