Josip Stadler

Stadler was born in Slavonski Brod in the Habsburg monarchy (present-day Croatia). His parents, Đuro and Marija (née Balošić) were hatmakers. His father's ancestors were originally christened Jews from Upper Austria.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Early in life, he lost both parents. He was taken care of by the Oršić family. He started his education in Slavonski Brod, and continued it, under the patronage of cardinal Juraj Haulik, in Požega and Zagreb where he attended Classical gymnasium.Koprek, Ivan (2007). Thesaurus Archigymnasii, Zbornik radova u prigodi 400. godišnjice Klasične gimnazije u Zagrebu (1607. - 2007.), Zagreb, p. 899., {{ISBN |978-953-95772-0-7}} In Rome he attended the Pontifical Gregorian University where he attained a doctorate in philosophy and theology.Antolović, Josip (1986). "Prvi vrhbosanski nadbiskup Josip Stadler", Obnovljeni život: časopis za filozofiju i religijske znanosti, Vol. 41. No. 3.- 4., p. 285.Religijski leksikon, ed. Josip Laća, Zagreb, 1999

Stadler was ordained a priest in Rome on June 6, 1868, after which he returned to Zagreb where he worked as a professor at a seminary and later a university professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology of the University of Zagreb.

In 1881, the Catholic Church hierarchy in Bosnia and Herzegovina was reinstated after nearly seven centuries, when the last bishop of Bosnia was evicted by Bosnian ban Matej Ninoslav and left Bosnia for Đakovo.{{cite journal|last=Lovrenović|first=Ivan|title=Prvi milenij Bosne|journal=BH Dani|date=December 1999|issue=135|url=http://www.bhdani.com/arhiva/135/t352a.htm|access-date=4 May 2012|language=Bosnian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110921125332/http://bhdani.com/arhiva/135/t352a.htm|archive-date=21 September 2011|url-status=usurped}} Pope Leo XIII named Stadler as the first archbishop of Vrhbosna in Sarajevo. Under his direction, the Cathedral of Jesus' Heart was built, along with the seminary and church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. In Travnik he helped build the gymnasium and seminary, as well as many churches and women's seminaries throughout the country.

Stadler founded the women's order of the Servants of the Infant Jesus with the intention of helping impoverished and abandoned children and others. He sent a plea to Vienna, to Franziska Lechner to send nuns to Sarajevo. He formed the orphanages Betlehem and Egipat for children and a home for the elderly.

He argued that Bosnia and Herzegovina should be integrated into a greater Croatian state.{{Cite journal |last=Vukušić |first=Tomo |date=1999-03-21 |title=Nadbiskup Josip Stadler (1881.-1918.) i Srbi |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/48162 |journal=Crkva u svijetu: Crkva u svijetu |language=hr |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=35–60 |issn=0352-4000}} Stadler invited Serbs to engage in a theological discussion and to consider the possibility of unifying the two churches, but his proposal was firmly rejected.

Stadler died in Sarajevo on the feast day of the Assumption of Mary in his 75th year. He was succeeded by archbishop Ivan Šarić. Stadler was buried in Sarajevo Cathedral.{{Cite web|url=https://verbum.hr/autori/stadler-josip|title=Verbum | Stadler,Josip|website=verbum.hr}}

Right after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the Austro-Hungarian government encouraged anti-serb riots in Sarajevo, in which Serb civillians were assaulted, numerous houses, Serbian Orthodox churches, schools, shops and institutions owned by Serbs were razed or pillaged. Leading to divisions unprecedented in the city's history. Later that night, an agreement was reached between the provincial government of Bosnia and Herzegovina led by Oskar Potiorek, Sarajevo city police and Štadler with his assistant Ivan Šarić to eradicate the "subversive elements of this land."{{cite book|author=Cathie Carmichael|title=A Concise History of Bosnia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rMfSCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA56|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=1107016150|page=56}}

{{cite book|author=Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1991|title=JPRS Report: East Europe, Edition 60-68|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eRoUAQAAMAAJ&q=Josip+Stadler+anti-serb|page=29}}

{{cite book|author=Andrej Mitrović|authorlink=Andrej Mitrović|title=Serbia's Great War, 1914-1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=viqqqQ2KT7kC&pg=PA18|accessdate=7 December 2013|year=2007|publisher=Purdue University Press|isbn=978-1-55753-477-4|page=18}}{{cite book|author1=Slavko Vukčević|author2=Branislav Kovačević|title=Mojkovačka operacija, 1915-1916: zbornik radova sa naučnog skupa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yDgyAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=7 December 2013|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Institut za savremenu istoriju|page=25|isbn=9788674030707 |quote=У демопстрацијама у Сарајеву, које су започеле још током ноћи 28. јуна 1914, на миг шефа земаљске управе за Босну и Херцеговину - Поћорека и надбискупа Штадлера разорене су три српске штампарије, демонтиран хотел...}}

The city government issued a proclamation and invited population of Sarajevo to "fulfill their holy duty and clean their city of the shame through eradication of the subversive elements." It was printed on the posters which were distributed and displayed over the city during that night and tomorrow early morning, which signaled the continuation of the pogrom. Two Serbs were killed on the first day of the demonstrations, and many were attacked, while numerous houses, shops and institutions owned by Serbs were razed or pillaged.{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

During Pope John Paul II's visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina on 12 April 1997 the pope prayed at Stadler's grave.{{Cite web|url=http://vrhbosanska-nadbiskupija.org/wordpress/test1/povijest-nadbiskupije/papa-ivan-pavao-ii-u-sarajevu-1997-god/|title=Papa Ivan Pavao II. u Sarajevu 1997. god.|access-date=2019-08-30|archive-date=2019-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190830123904/http://vrhbosanska-nadbiskupija.org/wordpress/test1/povijest-nadbiskupije/papa-ivan-pavao-ii-u-sarajevu-1997-god/|url-status=dead}} The process for Stadler's canonization began in Sarajevo on 20 June 2002.Croatian Encyclopedia volume 10, ed. August Kovačec, Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography, Zagreb, 2008

Stadler was proclaimed Honorary citizen of Slavonski Brod (2023).[https://www.slavonski-brod.hr/vijesti-2/13311-predsjednik-milanovic-na-svecanoj-sjednici-povodom-dana-grada-slavonskog-broda Predsjednik Milanović na svečanoj sjednici povodom Dana grada Slavonskog Broda] slavonski-brod.hr. City of Slavonski Brod. Published 16 May 2023.

Following is a partial list of works authored by archbishop Stadler:{{Cite web|url=http://www.josip-stadler.org/knjige.html|title=Josip Stadler|website=www.josip-stadler.org}}

• Logika, Zagreb, 1871
• Poslovice: pučka mudrost, Danica ilirska for the year 1873, Zagreb, 1872
• Theologia fundamentalis: tractatus de vera religione, de vera Christi Ecclesia et de Romano Pontifice complectens, Zagreb, 1880
• Theologia fundamentalis: tractatus de traditione, Scriptura et analysi fidei complectens, Sarajevo, 1884
• Filosofija u 6 svezaka [Philosophy in 6 volumes]
• I. Logika, dio prvi: Dijalektika [Logic, Part One: Dialectics], 1904
• II. Logika, dio drugi: Kritika ili noetika [Logic, Part Two: Criticism or Noetics], 1905
• III. Opća metafisika ili ontologija [General Metaphysics or Ontology], 1907
• IV. Kosmologija [Cosmology], 1909
• V. Psihologija [Psychology], 1910
• VI. Naravno bogoslovlje [Natural Theology], 1915

• Antun Mahnić
• Ivan Merz

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