Franz Xaver Luschin

Franz Xaver Luschin
Metropolitan Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gorizia and Gradisca
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	6 April 1835
Term ended	2 May 1854
Predecessor	Joseph Walland
Successor	Andreas Gollmayr
Other posts	Rector of University of Graz (1815–1816) Diocesan Bishop of Trento (1824–1834) Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv and Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria (1834–1835)
Orders
Ordination	26 August 1804 (Priest)
Consecration	3 October 1824 (Bishop) by Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber
Personal details
Birth name	Franz Xaver Luschin
Born	(1781-12-03)3 December 1781 Tainach, Duchy of Carinthia, Habsburg Monarchy (present day in Völkermarkt District, Austria)
Died	2 May 1854(1854-05-02) (aged 72) Gorizia, Austrian Empire (present day in Italy)

Archbishop Franz Xaver Luschin (Slovene: Franc Ksaver Lušin; 3 December 1781 – 2 May 1854) was a Roman Catholic prelate, who served as a Diocesan Bishop of Trento from 24 May 1824 until 23 June 1834, a Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria from 23 June 1834 until 6 April 1835 and a Metropolitan Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gorizia and Gradisca from 6 April 1835 his death on 2 May 1854.

Coat of arms of Archbishop Franz Xaver Luschin

Life

Archbishop Luschin was born in the wealthy peasant family of Carinthian Slovenes in Tainach (present day a part of town Völkermarkt). After graduation of the gymnasium and lyceum education, he subsequently joined the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Klagenfurt^[1] and was ordained as priest on August 26, 1804, for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk^[2] after completed his a philosophical and theological studies.^[3]

After his ordination, he served as an assistant priest in Klagenfurt from 1804 until 1808, he continued his studies in the University of Vienna with Doctor of Sacred Theology degree in 1813. He became a professor in a University of Graz, and in 1815–1816, for one year, become a Rector. In 1820 he was appointed a referent in ecclesiastical affairs for the Tyrolean government in Innsbruck.^[3]

On May 24, 1824, he was confirmed by the Pope Leo XII as a Diocesan Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Trento, that was vacant for last six years. On October 3, 1824, he was consecrated as a bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Augustin Johann Joseph Gruber without co-consecrators.^[2] Here he worked not only in the solution of an ecclesiastical questions, but also in an economic problems.^[1]

On June 23, 1834, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Metropolitan Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and the second Primate of Galicia and Lodomeria in a present-day Ukraine, but he immediately realised that he would not be able to control the difficult situation, as there were strong tensions between the Latin-rite Catholics and the united Ruthenians. So he immediately asked to be transferred to an another see, and 1 year later, on April 6, 1835, he was confirmed by the Holy See as a Metropolitan Archbishop of then vacant Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gorizia and Gradisca.^[3]

View on village Tainach/Tinje, the birth place of Archbishop Franz Xaver Luschin

Archbishop Luschin died, while in the office, on May 2, 1854, in Gorizia, Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca and was buried in the crypt of the local metropolitan chapel.^[3]

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