Josip Å tadler

Josef Stadler ( born January 24, 1843 in Slavonski Brod, † December 8, 1918 in Sarajevo) was archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese Vhrbosna.

Life

His parents came from Slavonski Brod. When Josef Stadler was eleven years old his parents died in quick succession. As orphans his siblings and he came to different families in the city of Slavonski Brod. He attended school in his hometown and continued his education in the Archbishop's orphanage in Požega (Croatia) and Zagreb continued. There he attended high school. He decided to become a Roman Catholic priest. As a seminarian of the Archdiocese of Zagreb, he obtained a doctorate in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University faculty. In 1868 he was ordained a priest in Rome. He returned to Zagreb and taught as a high school teacher in the local seminary. He then worked at the Zagreb Catholic theological faculty as a professor. Pope Leo XIII. appointed him in 1881 for the first archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vhrbosna (Sarajevo). From 1882 to 1884 he was also Apostolic Administrator of the newly established Diocese of Banja Luka. He felt his pastoral task very committed. He let in Sarajevo cathedral, the seminary with the Church of St.. Cyril and Methodius, and the building of the cathedral chapter and the Ordinariate build. In Bosnia and Herzegovina Travnik he had a high school including junior seminary building. He also in other places of his diocese a number of churches and convents built. The woman Congregation of the "Servants of the Child Jesus " was founded by him. Also for the homeless and old, abandoned people he built a home in Sarajevo. For orphans in the city's orphanages " Bethlehem " and " Egipat " were built. The Roman Catholic population in Bosnia and Herzegovina and other people of different religious ties worshiped him as the "father of the poor". Josip Stadler died on the feast of the " Immaculate Conception ", in the age of 75 and was buried in the Cathedral of Sarajevo. On April 12, 1997 Pope John Paul II prayed at his grave. The process for his beatification was initiated in Sarajevo on 20 June 2002.