Josip Stadler

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ParentsĐuro and Marija (née Balošić)
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Josip Štadler
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Spoken styleYour Excellency
Religious styleArchbishop

Josip Stadler (24 January 1843 – 8 December 1918) was a Bosnian-Herzegovinian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first

archbishop of Vrhbosna, from 1881 to his death in 1918. He was the founder of the religious order of the Servants of the Infant Jesus (Croatian
: Služavke Maloga Isusa).

Early life and education

Stadler was born in Slavonski Brod in the Habsburg monarchy (present-day Croatia). His parents, Đuro and Marija (née Balošić) were hatmakers. His father's ancestors were originally christened Jews from Upper Austria.[citation needed]

Early in life, he lost both parents. He was taken care of by the Oršić family. He started his education in Slavonski Brod, and continued it, under the patronage of cardinal Juraj Haulik, in Požega and Zagreb where he attended Classical gymnasium.[2] In Rome he attended the Pontifical Gregorian University where he attained a doctorate in philosophy and theology.[3][4]

Career

Stadler was ordained a priest in Rome on June 6, 1868, after which he returned to Zagreb where he worked as a professor at a seminary and later a university professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb.[3]

In 1881, the

Sts. Cyril and Methodius. In Travnik he helped build the gymnasium
and seminary, as well as many churches and women's seminaries throughout the country.

Stadler founded the women's order of the Servants of the Infant Jesus with the intention of helping impoverished and abandoned children and others. He sent a plea to Vienna, to Franziska Lechner to send nuns to Sarajevo. He formed the orphanages Betlehem and Egipat for children and a home for the elderly.[3]

Death

Stadler died in Sarajevo on the feast day of the Assumption of Mary in his 75th year. He was succeeded by archbishop Ivan Šarić. Stadler was buried in Sarajevo Cathedral.[6]

Canonization

During Pope John Paul II's visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina on 12 April 1997 the pope prayed at Stadler's grave.[7] The process for Stadler's canonization began in Sarajevo on 20 June 2002.[8]

Works

Following is a partial list of works authored by archbishop Stadler:[9]

  • Logika, Zagreb, 1871
  • Poslovice: pučka mudrost,
    Danica
    for the year 1873, Zagreb, 1872
  • Theologia fundamentalis: tractatus de vera religione, de vera Christi Ecclesia et de Romano Pontifice complectens, Zagreb, 1880
  • Theologia fundamentalis: tractatus de traditione, Scriptura et analysi fidei complectens, Sarajevo, 1884
  • Filosofija u 6 svezaka [Philosophy in 6 volumes]
  • I. Logika, dio prvi: Dijalektika [Logic, Part One: Dialectics], 1904
  • II. Logika, dio drugi: Kritika ili noetika [Logic, Part Two: Criticism or Noetics], 1905
  • III. Opća metafisika ili ontologija [General Metaphysics or Ontology], 1907
  • IV. Kosmologija [Cosmology], 1909
  • V. Psihologija [Psychology], 1910
  • VI. Naravno bogoslovlje [Natural Theology], 1915

Acknowledgements

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Archbishop Josef Stadler". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. ISBN 978-953-95772-0-7
  3. ^ a b c Antolović, Josip (1986). "Prvi vrhbosanski nadbiskup Josip Stadler", Obnovljeni život: časopis za filozofiju i religijske znanosti, Vol. 41. No. 3.- 4., p. 285.
  4. ^ Religijski leksikon, ed. Josip Laća, Zagreb, 1999
  5. ^ Lovrenović, Ivan (December 1999). "Prvi milenij Bosne". BH Dani (in Bosnian) (135). Archived from the original on 21 September 2011. Retrieved 4 May 2012.
  6. ^ "Verbum | Stadler,Josip". verbum.hr.
  7. ^ "Papa Ivan Pavao II. u Sarajevu 1997. god". Archived from the original on 2019-08-30. Retrieved 2019-08-30.
  8. ^ Croatian Encyclopedia volume 10, ed. August Kovačec, Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography, Zagreb, 2008
  9. ^ "Josip Stadler". www.josip-stadler.org.
  10. ^ Predsjednik Milanović na svečanoj sjednici povodom Dana grada Slavonskog Broda slavonski-brod.hr. City of Slavonski Brod. Published 16 May 2023.
Catholic Church titles
New title Archbishop of Vrhbosna
1881–1918 		Succeeded by
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