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


Life

Johann Rudolf Kutschker was born in Seifersdorf,
Austrian Silesia Austrian Silesia, (historically also ''Oesterreichisch-Schlesien, Oesterreichisch Schlesien, österreichisch Schlesien''); cs, Rakouské Slezsko; pl, Śląsk Austriacki officially the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia, (historically ''Herzogth ...
(now Loučky in Zátor,
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). He studied humanities and philosophy at the Olomouc University then at the
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- doctorate in theology.
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priest on 21 April 1833 and
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in the
archdiocese of Olomouc The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olomouc ( cs, Arcidiecéze olomoucká, la, Archidioecesis Olomucensis) is a metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church in the Czech Republic. It has its seat in Olomouc. Special churches ...
, he became professor of
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of the local university for seventeen years. Later he was appointed to different higher posts in the period 1857–1876 in
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. Kutschker was elected
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bishop of ''Carrhae'' and appointed auxiliary bishop of
archdiocese of Vienna The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna ( la, Archidioecesis Viennensis) is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Austria. It was erected as the Diocese of Vienna on 18 January 1469 out of the Diocese of Passau, and elevated to an archdio ...
on 7 April 1862. Promoted to the
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of
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on 15 April 1876. Archbishop Kutschker was created
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in the
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of 22 June 1877 by Pope Pius IX and assigned to the title of
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. He participated in the Papal conclave, 1878. He died in
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on 27 January 1881 and was buried in the metropolitan
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.


References


External links

*
The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church- Biographical Dictionary


{{DEFAULTSORT:Kutschker, Johann Baptist Rudolph 1810 births 1881 deaths People from Bruntál District People from Austrian Silesia Higher Scientific Institute for Diocesan Priests at St. Augustine's alumni 19th-century Austrian cardinals Cardinals created by Pope Pius IX Palacký University Olomouc alumni