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Franz Koenig

His Eminence
Franz König
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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Orders
Ordination 29 October 1933
by Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani
Consecration 31 August 1952
by Michael Memelauer
Created Cardinal 15 December 1958
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born (1905-08-03)3 August 1905
Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria, Austria-Hungary
Died 13 March 2004(2004-03-13) (aged 98)
Vienna, Austria
Denomination Roman Catholic
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Reference style His Eminence
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Informal style Cardinal

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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