Johann Rudolf Kutschker

His Eminence
Johann Baptist Rudolph Kutschker
Cardinal, Archbishop of Vienna
See Archdiocese of Vienna
Installed April 15, 1876 — January 27, 1881
Predecessor Joseph Othmar Rauscher
Successor Cölestin Ganglbauer, O.S.B.
Other posts Cardinal priest of Sant'Eusebio
Orders
Created Cardinal June 22, 1877
Personal details
Born (1810-04-11)April 11, 1810
Loučky, Zátor, Austrian Silesia
Died January 27, 1881(1881-01-27) (aged 70)
Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Previous post Titular bishop of Carrhae
auxiliary bishop of Vienna
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Johann Baptist Rudolph Kutschker was an Austrian Cardinal (April 11, 1810 — January 27, 1881).

Johann Rudolf Kutschker was born in Seifersdorf (now Loučky, Zátor), Austrian Silesia. 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.

Archbishop 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.

He died in Vienna on January 27, 1881, and was buried in the metropolitan St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna.

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