Roman Sebastian Zängerle

Roman Sebastian Zängerle (also: Franz Xaver Sebastian Zängerle ) ( born January 20 1771 in Oberkirch mountain near Ulm, † April 27, 1848 in Graz) was a Catholic theologian, professor and from 1824 Prince-Bishop of the Diocese of Seckau.

Training

Franz Xaver ( as the baptismal name ) Sebastian Zängerle was the ninth of ten children of the soap boiler and merchant Johann Zängerle and his wife Elizabeth, nee Brotam, widowed tangling. His birthplace Oberkirchberg was then in western Austria. He attended from 1788, the high school at the Benedictine Monastery Wiblingen. In 1792, he put the Benedictines from the profession and received the religious name Roman. After studying at the collegiate educational institution, he was ordained in Constance on December 21, 1793 as a priest. After that, he worked at Stiftsgymnasium and at the collegiate educational institution as a professor of hermeneutics. After further studies and an examination at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, he became a full professor of Scripture. He taught in the Benedictine monasteries Wiblingen and Mehrerau. In Wiblingen, where he was master of novices since 1798, he took over in 1801 additionally the pin parish.

The academic teachers

1803 he was appointed to the Benedictine University of Salzburg, where he received his doctorate in philosophy and a doctorate in theology and was appointed Professor of Oriental Languages ​​and Sacred Scripture and at the same time was responsible for the subject of pastoral theology. In addition, he was a preacher and academic supervisors of religious congregations.

1806, the pen Wiblingen was secularized and became part of the Kingdom of Württemberg. In this context, part of the Benedictines of Wiblingen moved to the Abbey Tyniec in Galicia. Also Zängerle followed this call and in 1807 in Cracow professor of Bible and Greek New Testament. As Krakow 1809 Polish, Tyniec also had to be abandoned, and Zängerle came after stopovers in 1811 to Prague, where he was professor of Sacred Scripture at the local university. Two years later he became professor of New Testament at the University of Vienna.

Although he was Protestant biblical exegesis, and used her as a teacher, he never got into trouble with the ecclesiastical authorities. He eventually belonged to the circle around the later canonized Redemptorists, anti- Enlightenment and the representative of a romantic Catholicism, Klemens Maria Hofbauer, the "apostle of Vienna ". In 1821 he settled as his Benedictine community was now scattered, waive the religious vows.

As a prince-bishop, a religious innovator

On May 18, 1824 Prince Archbishop Johann Augustin Joseph Gruber nominated him to the Prince-Bishop of Seckau and at the same time as administrator of the Diocese of Leoben with a bishopric in Graz. The episcopal ordination by Archbishop Gruber found on September 12, instead of the enthronement on 31 October 1824. During the following 24-year episcopate he sought with great zeal for the spiritual renewal of the parish, especially the secular clergy. 1825-28 undertook visitations. Although the imperial residence and loyal, he fought the state church sovereignty and had in this context, a series of confrontations experience. In this he succeeded to the state to enforce the episcopal line claim over the Graz seminary. Nor does he always strove for a greater adherence to the rules in the monasteries of his two Sprengel, but with success. So he put on new orders and brought in 1825 the Redemptorists for several offices in his territory. In 1832 he won the Jesuits for Graz. It was followed until 1845 more monastic foundations of male and female observance. He also promoted religious brotherhoods and the Third Order. In religious matters, such as the question of mixed marriages, he represented the uncompromising positions of the Roman Curia. His Romtreue brought him in 1843 at the celebration of his golden jubilee of priestly ordination praised by Pope Gregory XVI. one.

From 1845, he suffered from gout. He died of pneumonia and was buried in the crypt of the cathedral of Graz. He left a number of writings, especially fasting and other sermons.