Lev Skrbenský z Hříště

Lev Skrbenský z Hříště, German: Leo Skrbenský von Hříště, also spelt Skrebensky (12 June 1863, Hausdorf (now a part of Bartošovice), Moravia, Austria-Hungary – 24 December 1938, Dlouhá Loučka, Czechoslovakia) was a prominent Cardinal in the Catholic Church during the early 20th century.

His Eminence Lev Skrbenský z Hřiště
Cardinal, Archbishop of Olomouc
Lev Skrbenský
Church	Roman Catholic
Archdiocese	Olomouc
Installed	1916
Term ended	6 July 1920
Predecessor	Franziskus von Sales Bauer
Successor	Antonín Cyril Stojan
Other posts	Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio
Orders
Ordination	7 July 1889
Consecration	6 January 1900
Created cardinal	15 April 1901 by Leo XIII
Rank	Cardinal
Personal details
Born	12 June 1863 Hausdorf (now a part of Bartošovice), Moravia, Austria-Hungary
Died	24 December 1938 (aged 75) Dlouhá Loučka, Czechoslovakia
Previous post	Cardinal Archbishop of Prague (1899–1916)

Born into a wealthy family, Lev Skrbenský z Hříště was educated at the seminary of Olomouc and during the 1880s worked on a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University. After being ordained in 1889, he went into the army of the Austrian Empire and spent the following decade serving as an army chaplain.

He left his military duties in 1899, and Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria selected him as Archbishop of Prague. Two years later, he was made a cardinal on 15 April 1901, at the age of thirty-seven.[lower-alpha 1]</ref> He received the red hat on 9 June 1902.[1] He participated in the 1903 and 1914 conclaves, and in 1916 was transferred to the see of Olomouc, to which he was elected by its cathedral chapter at the request of the Habsburg government. He resigned this see in 1920 due to poor health and did not participate in the 1922 conclave.

Although his health remained very poor, Skrbenský z Hříště lived until 1938 and was the last cardinal created by Pope Leo XIII to die, outliving Vincenzo Vannutelli by more than eight years.

Notes

1. Since then no man has been made a cardinal at such a young age. The youngest in the past hundred years have been: Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira in 1929 at the age of 41 and Jusztinián György Serédi in 1927 at the age of 43.

References

1. "Latest intelligence - Papal Consistory". The Times (36790). 10 June 1902. p. 7.

External links

• record at Catholic Hierarchy ^{[self-published]}