Franz Josef Rudigier (7 April 1811 – 29 November 1884) was an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate and served as the Bishop of Linz from his appointment in 1853 until his death.

Much of his local diocese grew due to his vigorous in promoting evangelic zeal and fundamental religious principles.

He promoted the Christian press and took a visible stand defending the 1855 concordat, when liberals annulled it without papal consultation in 1870.

[2] The new priest was assigned as a pastor at Vandans and then from 1836 to Bürs until 1838 when he moved to the capital of Vienna for further studies at the Frintaneum; in 1839 he was made a professor of church history and canon law at Brixen when he returned there.

Rudigier died on 29 November 1884; while ill, he was said to have often recited the last verses of the Stabat Mater: "Christe, cum sit hinc exire, da per matrem me venire ad palmam victoriae.

[4] A second apostolic process opened in Linz on 15 December 1926 under Bishop Johannes Maria Gföllner and closed later in 1931; this also received C.O.R.

The Congregation for the Causes of Saints later validated all previous processes on 7 June 2002 and received the official Positio dossier from the postulation in 2002.