Johann Rudolf Kutschker

infobox cardinalbiog
name = Johann Baptist Rudolph Cardinal Kutschker †

Archdiocese of Vienna | Title = Archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal priest of Sant'Eusebio | Period = April 15, 1876 — January 27, 1881 | cardinal = June 22, 1877
Predecessor = Joseph Othmar von Rauscher | Successor = Cölestin Ganglbauer, O.S.B. | post = Titular bishop of "Carrhae" and auxiliary bishop of Vienna | date of birth = Birth date|1810|4|11|mf=y | place of birth = "Weise" (now Loučky), near Seifersdorf (now Zátor, Czech Republic)| date of death = Death date and age|1881|1|27|1810|4|11|
place of death= Vienna, Austria-Hungary|

Johann Baptist Rudolph Kutschker was an Austrian Cardinal (April 11, 1810 — January 27, 1881).

Born in "Weise" (now Loučky), near Seifersdorf (now Zátor in the Bruntál District of the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic). He studied humanities and philosophy at the Olomouc University then at the University of Vienna - doctorate in theology.

Ordained priest on April 21, 1833 and incardinated in the archdiocese of Olomouc, he became professor of moral theology of the local university for seventeen years. Later he was appointed to different higher posts in the period 1857 - 1876 in Vienna.

Kutschker was elected titular bishop of "Carrhae" and appointed auxiliary bishop of archdiocese of Vienna on April 7, 1862. Promoted to the metropolitan see of Vienna on April 15, 1876.

Archibishop Kutschker was created cardinal priest in the consistory of June 22, 1877 by Pope Pius IX and assigned to the title of Sant'Eusebio. He participated in the Papal conclave, 1878.

Died in Vienna on January 27, 1881, buried in the metropolitan St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna.

External links

* [http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1877-ii.htm#Kutschker The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church- Biographical Dictionary]
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bkuts.html Catholic Hierarchy data for this cardinal]