Alois Jozef Krakowski von Kolowrat

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Alois Josef Krakovský von Kolowrat (Czech: Alois Josef hrabě Krakovský z Kolovrat; German: Alois Josef Krakovský von Kolowrat) (21 January 1759, Prague - 28 March 1833) was the Roman Catholic archbishop of Prague from 1831 to 1833.

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Krakowski was born in Prague in 1759. He was ordained a priest on his 22nd birthday, 21 January 1781. In 1800, he was appointed the auxiliary bishop of Olomouc in the Czech Republic, as well as titular bishop of Sarepta. It was fifteen years before he was appointed bishop of Hradec Králové. He remained in this capacity until 28 February 1831 when he was appointed archbishop of Prague. Exactly two years and a month later, he died at the age of 74.^[1]

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• Archbishop Alois Jozef Krakowski von Kolowrat profile at Catholic-Hierarchy
• Biographical entry for Kolowrat-Krakowsky in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie by Ludwig Schlesinger (German)

Preceded by Václav Léopold Ritter von Chlumčansky

Archbishop of Prague 1831–1833

Succeeded by Andrzej Alojzy Ankwicz