Francis Xavier Krautbauer
| Francis Xavier Krautbauer | |
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| Born | June 12, 1828 |
| Died | December 17, 1885 (aged 57) |
Francis Xavier Krautbauer (June 12, 1828 – December 17, 1885) was the second bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin.[1]
Biography
Born in Mappach, Bavaria, he received his early education in Regensburg, and afterward studied theology in the Ducal Georgianum in Munich.[2] He was ordained to the priesthood, on June 16, 1850, for the Diocese of Buffalo, New York.[3] arrived in the United States in October of the same year. After a short residence in Buffalo, he was appointed in 1851 pastor of St. Peter's Church, Rochester, where he also erected schools for boys and girls. In 1859 he went to Milwaukee to become spiritual director of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, at the same time attending the Church of Our Lady of the Angels. He remained in this post for over ten years, and the mother house of the sisterhood was built under his direction. In 1873 Krautbauer was shipwrecked on Lake Michigan and narrowly escaped drowning.[2]
On February 12, 1875, Pope Pius IX appointed him Bishop of the Green Bay Diocese, for which he was ordained bishop on June 29, 1875. He found the administration of his diocese a work of great difficulty, as his flock embraced people from every country in Europe. Some congregations were made up of English-speaking Roman Catholics, Germans, Frenchmen, Hollanders, Bohemians, Walloons, Poles, and people of the First Nations. He devoted special attention to the work of education, and in 1884 had 44 parochial schools, attended by 5,292 children. The number of churches increased from 92 to 126, and the number of priests from 63 to 96. Under his bishopric the Cathedral of Saint Francis Xavier in Green Bay was planned and erected between 1876 and 1881. Bishop Krautbauer died in Green Bay.[2][4]
References
- ↑ http://www.gbdioc.org/pg/history.tpl
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1900). "year=1892". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton - ↑ http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=2735&search_term=krautbauer
- ↑ Bishop Francis Xavier Krautbauer [Catholic-Hierarchy]
| Preceded by Joseph Melcher |
Bishop of Green Bay February 12, 1875–December 17, 1885 |
Succeeded by Frederick Katzer |