Józef Weber

Archbishop Weber was born in a Polonized German family of the colonists in Bukovina. After graduation of the school and gymnasium education, he subsequently joined Faculty of Theology of the University of Lviv and the Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv. After that he continued to study in the Polish College in Rome,[1] where he was ordained as priest on June 7, 1873, for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv,[2] while completed of the philosophical and theological studies. In time of his studies he wished to join the Resurrectionists, inspired by the Rector of Polish College Fr. Piotr Semenenko, C.R., but his Archbishop asked him to postpone his decision.[3]

After returning from Italy, he served as a chancellor of the Metropolitan curia and a spiritual director in a Major Roman Catholic Theological Seminary in Lviv. At the same time, from 1881, he became a director and curator of the Resurrectionist Congregation for 25 years.[1]

On December 2, 1895, he was appointed by the Pope Leo XIII as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lviv and a Titular Bishop of Temnos. On December 29, 1895, he was consecrated as bishop by Metropolitan Archbishop Seweryn Morawski and other prelates of the Roman Catholic and Armenian Catholic Churches[2] in the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Lviv. In the same time he was nominated as an Episcopal Vicar for Bukovina (1895–1906), that was a part of the Archdiocese of Lviv.

On April 15, 1901 he was elevated in the rank of Archbishop with title of Darnis, remained an auxiliary bishop.[2]

On May 26, 1906 Archbishop Weber resigned as an auxiliary bishop and joined the Resurrectionist Congregation, were made a profession on June 24, 1906. Rest his life he lived in Rome and later, from 1909, in the United States. He served as a Superior of the American-Canadian province of the Resurrectionists from 1911 until his death in 1918.[3]