Franziskus von Sales Bauer

Francis de Sales, Cardinal Bauer (Czech: František Salesky Bauer; born January 26, 1841 in Hrachovec, † November 25, 1915 in Olomouc) was bishop of Brno and Archbishop of Olomouc.

Life

Francis de Sales Bauer was ordained in Olomouc on July 19, 1863 priests and then worked as a pastor. After the election of the bishop of Brno on July 3, 1882, on 15 August of the same year a bishop by the Archbishop of Olomouc, Friedrich Cardinal Egon von Furstenberg. Co-consecrators were the suffragans of Gustav Belrupt - Tyssac from Olomouc and Karl Prucha from Prague.

The Olomouc Cathedral Chapter elected him in 1904 as successor to the Archbishop Theodore Kohn resigned. Pope Pius X took Francis de Sales Bauer on November 27, 1911 as cardinal priest with the titular church of San Girolamo dei Croati ( degli Schiavoni ) in the College of Cardinals to.