Edward O'Rourke
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His Excellency Edward Aleksander Wladyslaw O’Rourke |
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| Bishop of Danzig | |
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| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Diocese | Danzig |
| Appointed | 2 January 1926 |
| In office | 1926–1938 |
| Successor | Carl Maria Splett |
| Other posts | Titular Bishop of Sophene |
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| Ordination | 27 October 1907 |
| Consecration | 15 December 1918 by Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius |
| Rank | Bishop |
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October 26, 1876 Basin, Minsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | January 27, 1943 (aged 66) Rome Italy |
| Buried | Oliwa Cathedral |
| Previous post |
Bishop of Riga (1918-1920) Apostolic Administrator of Danzig (1922-1926) |
Edward O'Rourke, full name Eduard Alexander Ladislaus Graf (Count) O'Rourke (Polish: Edward Aleksander Władysław O'Rourke; October 26, 1876 in Minsk – June 27, 1943) was a Roman Catholic priest, bishop of Riga and the first head of the bishopric of the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk).
O'Rourke was born October 26, 1876 in Basin, Minsk, Russian Empire (modern Belarus), to an aristocratic family of Irish ancestry, many of them high officers in the Russian military. The most prominent was Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke. They held imperial titles of the Russian Empire and of the German Holy Roman Empire, but also had petitioned to retain the Irish count title as well, which was granted by the Tsar in 1848. His father was Michael Graf O'Rourke and his mother Baltic-German Angelika von Bochwitz. He received a broad European education and learned a number of languages.
After graduating from the famous Jesuit college in Chyrów (then Austria-Hungary, now Ukraine) in 1898, he went to Riga, Latvia to study. In 1903 he graduated from the Trade and Mechanics Faculty of the University of Riga. In 1903 he moved to Freiburg, Switzerland, where he continued his studies at the University of Fribourg, faculty of law. The following year O'Rourke moved to the theological faculty at the University of Innsbruck in Austria-Hungary.
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