Franz König
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His Eminence Franz König |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop emeritus of Vienna | |
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| Archdiocese | Vienna |
| See | Vienna |
| Appointed | 10 May 1956 |
| Term ended | 16 September 1985 |
| Predecessor | Theodor Cardinal Innitzer |
| Successor | Hans Hermann Groër |
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| Ordination | 29 October 1933 by Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani |
| Consecration | 31 August 1952 by Michael Memelauer |
| Created Cardinal | 15 December 1958 |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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3 August 1905 Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary |
| Died | 13 March 2004 (aged 98) Vienna, Austria |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Franz König (3 August 1905 – 13 March 2004) was an Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. The last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope John XXIII, he was the second-oldest and longest-serving cardinal worldwide at the time of his death.
König was born in Warth near Rabenstein, Lower Austria, as the oldest of the nine children of Franz and Maria König. He attended the Benedictine-run Stiftsgymnasium Melk and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he received his doctorate in philosophy on 9 July 1930 and then his doctorate in theology on 21 January 1936. He also studied at the Pontifical German-Hungarian College, the Pontifical Biblical Institute, where he specialized in old Persian languages and religion, and the Université Catholique de Lille.
Ordained as a priest on 29 October 1933 by Cardinal Francesco Marchetti-Selvaggiani, he originally served as a chaplain and teacher during World War II, his main concern at that time being youth ministry. Following this, König pursued an academic career, being appointed Privatdozent, later teaching religion at the College of Krems and the University of Vienna (1945–1948) and moral theology at the University of Salzburg (1948–1952).
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