Type: | Vicar |
Honorific Prefix: | The Reverend |
Anselm Sparber | |
Church: | Catholic Church (Italy) |
Province: | Trento |
Diocese: | Bolzano-Brixen |
Birth Date: | May 13, 1883 |
Birth Place: | Stilfes |
Death Place: | Mals |
Anselm Sparber (May 13, 1883 in Stilfes, now municipality Freienfeld – November 26, 1969 in Mals, South Tyrol) was a South Tyrolean Catholic priest, theologian, and religious author.
Anselm Sparber from hamlet Egg, was ordained a priest in 1909. He was assigned to parish in Fiè am Schlern and Natz, later he became a vicar in Falzes. He worked as a tracher in Vinzentinum high school, since 1933 he also was working in Brixen diocesan seminary,[1] where he was teaching general and local church history. In 1939 he was appointed Brixen diocese Archivist and was admitted to diocesan consistory.[2]
Anselm Sparber wrote numerous works on the church and local history of South Tyrol.
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