Edward O'Rourke

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Edward Aleksander Władysław O'Rourke (German: Eduard O’Rourke; Latvian: Eduards O'Rurke; 26 October 1876 – 27 June 1943) was a Polish Roman Catholic priest, bishop of Riga and the first head of the bishopric of the Free City of Danzig (Gdańsk).

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Early life O'Rourke was born on 26 October 1876 in Basin, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire (modern-day Belarus) into an aristocratic family of Irish ancestry, which included many high officers in the Russian military. The most prominent was Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke. Family held imperial titles of the Russian Empire and of the German Holy Roman Empire but also petitioned to retain the Irish count title as well, which was granted by the Tsar in 1848. His father was Michael O'Rourke and his mother Aniela Bochwic, daughter of Polish philosopher Florian Bochwic and Paulina née Majewska. Initially, O'Rourke attended a private Jesuit College in Khyriv for two years starting in 1888. He then spent the next two years at the 1st Gymnasium in Vilnius, and finally graduated in 1898 from the Alexander Gymnasium in Riga. He began his higher education at a Riga Polytechnical Institute, where he joined the Polish student corporation "Arkonia". He graduated in 1903. He then enrolled in law studies at university in Fribourg, but after one semester transferred to university in Innsbruck, where he devoted himself to theological studies. During his studies, he was ordained as a pries, receiving minor orders on September 21, 1907, in Vawkavysk, and…Citește mai mult

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Free City of Danzig The Free City of Danzig was split from Germany in 1920. On 24 April 1922, Achille Ratti, then Pope Pius XI, nominated O'Rourke to the post of an Apostolic Administrator of the Free City of Danzig, and, on 21 December 1922, as the titular bishop of Pergamon. After the creation of the Diocese of Danzig on December 30, 1925, O'Rourke was appointed as the first Bishop of Danzig. He initially established good relations with the authorities (who granted him citizenship on 12 June 1926) and the mostly Protestant population. After the Nazis took over the area in 1933, he came into conflict with them over their policies. He hosted a synod from 10 to 12 December 1935, but growing pressure from the Nazi-majority senate made him resign as bishop of Danzig after he had tried to appoint four additional Polish parish priests. On 13 June 1938, he was appointed Titular bishop of Sophene. He adopted Polish citizenship in December 1938 and was made Cathedral Canon in Gniezno/Poznań. When the Germans attacked Poland in September 1939, O'Rourke was on a journey to Estonia. He traveled via Warsaw and Königsberg to Berlin, where he applied for a Visa…Citește mai mult

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Literature Stefan Samerski: Die Katholische Kirche in der Freien Stadt Danzig 1920–1933. Köln u.a. 1991 Stefan Samerski (Hrsg.): Das Bistum Danzig in Lebensbildern. Ordinarien, Weihbischöfe, Generalvikare, apostolische Visitatoren 1922/25 bis 2000. (= Religions- und Kulturgeschichte in Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa 3). Münster/Hamburg/London 2003. ISBN 3-8258-6284-4 “Documents and Materials for the History of the O'Rourke Family” by Eduard Graf O'Rourke (O'Rourke had travelled to Ireland in the 1920s to research his Irish ancestry)

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External links Stefan Samerski (1994). "O'Rourke, Eduard Graf". In Bautz, Traugott (ed.). Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL) (in German). Vol. 8. Herzberg: Bautz. cols. 839–843. ISBN 3-88309-053-0. Religious Life Das Bistum Danzig, Stefan Samerski, Page 39 Eduard Graf O'Rourke w. portrait Document by the Danzig Senate of Freie Stadt Danzig: citizenship of Bishop O'Rourke form 12 June 1926