Ludwig Schwarz
| Ludwig Schwarz, S.D.B. | |
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| Bishop of Linz | |
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Bishop Schwarz
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| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| In office | 18 September 2005 – 18 November 2015 (10 years, 2 months) |
| Predecessor | Maximilian Aichern |
| Successor | Manfred Scheuer |
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| Ordination | 29 June 1964 |
| Consecration | 25 November 2001 by Christoph Schönborn |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 June 1940 Most pri Bratislave, Slovakia |
| Previous post |
Auxiliary Bishop of Vienna Titular Bishop of Simidicca Bishop |
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Ludwig Schwarz, S.D.B. (born 4 June 1940) is the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Linz, Austria.
Ludwig Schwarz was the first of nine children and grew up in Most pri Bratislave. After the expulsion of his family from Slovakia in 1945, he arrived in Vienna, where he attended primary school. He attended a Gymnasium in Vienna for a time, but switched to the Salesian school in Ebreichsdorf-Unterwaltersdorf at the age of fourteen. In June 1959, he sat for the Matura exams and subsequently joined the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco. He was assigned a two-year teaching practicum; for the first year he served as a general assistant in Ebreichsdorf, and the second at the Schülerheim Vinzentinum in Klagenfurt.
He studied philosophy in Ebreichsdorf and Catholic theology in Klagenfurt; from 1961 to 1964 he studied at Benediktbeuern Theological College (Philosophisch-Theologischen Hochschule Benediktbeuern). On 29 June 1964, he was ordained to the priesthood by the Bishop of Augsburg, Josef Stimpfle. He afterwards served briefly as assistant chaplain at a parish church in Graz. He then studied classical philology and archeology at the University of Vienna, and was also the hospital chaplain at Sacred Heart Hospital (Herz Jesu Krankenhaus Wien). He received his doctorate in 1970. From 1969 to 1978, he was rector of an inter-diocesan seminary, Canisiusheim Centrum Horn. Until 1984, he was superior of the Austrian province of the Salesians, situated in Vienna.
In 1984 he was appointed to a directorship at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome. Starting in 1985, he taught Christian classical philology at the university. In 1993, he assumed the responsibilities of provincial for the Roman Province of the Salesians of Don Bosco.
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