House Management

Hon.Prof. Markus Stephan Bugnyar

born on 5 March 1975 in Vienna, Priest of the Diocese of Eisenstadt from  29 June 2000, Rector of the Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family in Jerusalem since 27 April 2004.

Commander of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem; Spiritual Counsel of the St. George Order of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine; member of the Roman Student Fraternity Capitolina and the KÖL Leopoldina in Vienna. Honorary Professor at the Philosophical-Theological College Benedict XVI. in Heiligenkreuz, graduate of the Strategic Leadership Course of the Austrian Federal Government at the National Defence Academy. Silver medal for services to the Republic of Austria 2015; Highest Decoration of the Province of Burgenland in October 2016; awarded golden mark of merit of the Province of Upper Austria on 29 November 2016 and Tyrolean Eagle Order in gold on 8 November 2018.

Studied Catholic Theology and Religious Education at the University of Vienna and at the Benedictine (Dormition)  Abbey Hagia Maria Sion in Jerusalem. September 2000 to August 2001 Chaplain in Mattersburg, Walbersdorf and Pöttelsdorf (Bgld.). September 2001 – February 2004 studied at the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem.

Hon.Prof. MMag. Markus Stephan Bugnyar
rector@austrianhospice.com

Lucas Johannes Maier MA,

born on September 13, 1993, has been the guesthouse manager of the Austrian Pilgrims’ Hospice of the Holy Family in Jerusalem 2020.

In 2021, Maier earned a degree in hotel and tourism management from the Guilford Glaser Faculty of Business and Management at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, and in 2018 from the University of Applied Sciences Vienna.

He completed his civil service at the Austrian Pilgrims’ Hospice from 2013 to 2014 and graduated from the Styrian Tourism Schools in Bad Gleichenberg in 2013.

Since 2008, he has gained extensive experience in the international hotel and tourism industry in Austria, Israel, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Spain.