Background
Stadler was born in Slavonski Brod in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria in what is today modern Croatia.
archbishop priest university professor
Stadler was born in Slavonski Brod in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, Austria in what is today modern Croatia.
He started his education in Slavonski Brod, and continued it in Požega and Zagreb where he attended gymnasium.
He is a candidate for sainthood. He was taken care of by the Oršić family. He was ordained a priest in Rome in 1868 and returned to Zagreb.
He was a gymnasium professor at a seminary and later a university professor at the Catholic Theology Faculty in Zagreb.
Pope Leo XIII named Stadler as the first archbishop of Vrhbosna in Sarajevo. He worked in faith, culture and national fields.
Under his direction, the Cathedral of Jesus" Heart was built, along with the seminary and church of Saints Cyril and Methodius. In Travnik he helped build the gymnasium and seminary, as well as many churches and women"s seminaries throughout the country.
He sent a plea to Vienna, to Franziska Lechner to send nuns to Sarajevo.
These nuns came and helped the poor as well as taught in the city"s schools. He formed the orphanages Betlehem and Egipat for children and a home for the elderly. He died in Sarajevo in his 75th year on the feast day of the Assumption.
He was succeed by Ivan Šarić.
Stadler was buried in Sarajevo"s cathedral. During Pope John Paul II"s visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina on 12 April 1997 the pope prayed at Stadler"s grave.
The process for his canonization began in Sarajevo on 20 June 2002.