Johannes Evangelist Haller

Johannes Evangelist Haller (30 April 1825 – 5 May 1900) was an Austrian-Hungarian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Archbishop of Salzburg from 1890 until his death. He was made a cardinal in 1896.

Biography Johannes Evangelist Haller was born on 30 April 1825 in St. Martin in Passeier in the South Tyrol, then within the Austria-Hungarian Empire and now in Italy. His father was a farmer. He went to school in Meran and Innsbruck and studied philosophy and theology at the seminary in Trento. On 21 May 1848 he was ordained a priest in Trento. He earned a doctorate in theology and worked as chaplain and parish vicar until 1860 when he became a chaplain at Säben Abbey. He was later pastor in Laion. From 1871 to 1874 he was episcopal vicar for the German-speaking part of the Diocese of Trento. and assigned him the title of Cardinal Priest of San Bartolomeo all'Isola on 25 June 1896.

Haller founded the Johanneum seminary in Meran and developed plans for a Catholic University of Salzburg. He oversaw the 1897 revision of the Austrian catechism.

He died in Salzburg on 5 May 1900 and was buried in the crypt of the Salzburg Cathedral.