Leopold Ernst von Firmian

Leopold Ernst von Firmian (1708–1783) was an Austrian bishop and Cardinal.

He was bishop of Seckau from 1739 to 1763, campaigning against Protestantism. He also acted as coadjutor bishop or administrator of the bishopric of Trento, from 1748 to 1758. As Prince-Bishop of Passau from 1763 to 1783[1], he was a more tolerant reforming Catholic.[2] He became Cardinal of S. Pietro in Montorio in 1772.[3]

Family

His parents were Baron Franz Alfons Georg von Firmian and Countess Barbara Elisabeth von Thun. Leopold Anton Freiherr von Firmian, archbishop of Salzburg, was his uncle.

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.worldstatesmen.org/German_States3.html
  2. ^ James Van Horn Melton, Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria (1988), pp. 200-1).
  3. ^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/d1p07.html

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