Friedrich Gustav Piffl

Friedrich Gustav Cardinal Piffl CanReg (* October 15, 1864 in Landskron, Austria - Hungary, † April 21, 1932 in Vienna) was Archbishop of Vienna.

Life

Friedrich Gustav Piffl began in 1874 with the study at the Gymnasium in Landskron interrupted it for a bookbinder and graduated high school studies in Vienna from. For a year he served as a volunteer in the military and entered 1883 in the Stift Klosterneuburg, where he received the religious name Friedrich. He was ordained a priest on January 8, 1888 at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna and was curate in Floridsdorf and Heiligenstadt.

In 1892 he was elected in 1907 professor of moral theology and sociology, in 1906 director of the firm Klosterneuburg, unanimously elected provost.

On April 1, 1913, he was appointed by Emperor Franz Joseph to the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and received on 1 June at the Abbey Church of Klosterneuburg by Cardinal Raffaele Di Scapinelli Leguigno episcopal ordination. On May 25, 1914, Pope Pius X took as cardinal priest with the titular church of San Marco in the College of Cardinals.

After the demise of the dual monarchy of Austria- Hungary and the proclamation of the Republic of German Austria in 1918 he put the title of Archbishop from. From 18 May 1922, he was Apostolic Administrator of Burgenland.

He struggled after the First World War to a reorganization of the pastoral care, promoted the Kolping Society and Caritas:

He was a member of the Catholic fraternities Kav Norica Wien and the K.Ö.H.V. Nordgau Vienna in ACA.

He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold.

1946 Cardinal Piffl alley in Vienna Hietzing was named after him.