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Franz-Josef Rudigier

Venerable Bishop
Franz Joseph Rudigier
Bishop of Linz
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Franz Joseph Rudigier in 1870.
Church Roman Catholic Church
Diocese Linz
See Linz
Appointed 10 March 1853
Installed 12 June 1853
Term ended 29 November 1884
Predecessor Gregorius Thomas Ziegler
Successor Ernest Maria Müller
Orders
Ordination 12 April 1835
Consecration 5 June 1853
by Michele Viale-Prelà
Rank Bishop
Personal details
Birth name Franz Joseph Rudigier
Born (1811-04-07)7 April 1811
Partenen, Vorarlberg, Austrian Empire
Died 29 November 1884(1884-11-29) (aged 73)
Linz, Oberösterreich, Austria-Hungary
Motto Quis ut Deus ("Who is like God?")
Coat of arms
Sainthood
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Title as Saint Venerable
Attributes Episcopal attire

Franz Josef Rudigier (7 April 1811 – 29 November 1884) was an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate and served as the Bishop of Linz from his appointment in 1853 until his death. Much of his local diocese grew due to his vigorous in promoting evangelic zeal and fundamental religious principles. His deep faith and will made him the intellectual figurehead of prelates in their struggle with liberalism.

Rudigier was a zealous friend and promoter of religious expression and prompted schools and religious associations to that end and oversaw the construction of churches and religious order houses which increased during his episcopate; he also promoted and encouraged the Christian press. Ever memorable is the stand he took on behalf of the 1855 concordat that the liberals opposed and annulled without papal consultation in 1868 and in 1870.

The beatification process for the bishop started under Pope Pius X on 6 December 1905 and he was titled as a Servant of God. The confirmation of his model life of heroic virtue on 3 April 2009 allowed for Pope Benedict XVI to name him as Venerable.

Franz Joseph Rudigier was born in the Austrian Empire on 7 April 1811 as the last of eight children to Johann Christian Rudigier and Maria Josepha Tschofen.

In 1823 he was sent to learn Latin under his brother Joseph - who had just been ordained as a priest - and then attended college at Innsbruck before deciding to start his studies to become a priest. In 1831 he commenced his studies to become a priest in Brixen and was elevated to the diaconate on 5 April 1835. Rudigier was ordained to the priesthood in Bressanone on 12 April 1835. The new priest was assigned as a pastor at Vandans and then from 1836 to Bürs until 1838 when he moved to the capital of Vienna for further studies at the Saint Augustine institute; in 1839 he was made a professor of canon law at Brixen when he returned there. Rudigier also served as a teacher of Emperor Franz Joseph I and his brother Maximilian I. In 1848 he was made the provost of San Candido and in 1850 the canon of Brixen.


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