Early Life and Ordination
Florian Abrahamowicz was born in Vienna, where his father, Alexander Abrahamowicz, was a Protestant pastor of Jewish background. Alexander's father, Jakob Abrahamowicz, had moved to Vienna from Pozorita/Pojorâta, Romania before Alexander's birth on 10 September 1926.
Several members of that family, residents of Siret (Romania), were murdered during the Holocaust. Because of his mother, Maria Teresa Amantea an Italian pianist, Florian Abrahamowicz also has Italian citizenship. He is one of five siblings, three of whom became Catholic priests. The other two priests are not linked with the Society of St Pius X or any similar organization.
One of them, Dom Johannes Paul Abrahamowicz, was prior (under-abbot) of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint Paul Outside the Walls from 2005 to 2009. He was webmaster of the ATLAS of the Benedictine Order OSB-International website until January 2008. At Saint Paul outside the Walls he composed the official hymn of the Pauline Year, and gave interviews on ecumenical aspects of the Year. In December 2009 he returned to his monastery in Austria.
An aunt, Elfriede Huber-Abrahamowicz (1922–2001) wrote poetry, stories, novels and philosophical treatises and lectured on the philosophy of feminism in Zürich.
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