Franz Karl Joseph Fürst von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

Portrait of von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst in the gallery at Augsburg Cathedral.

Franz Joseph Xaver Karl Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (27 November 1745, Waldenburg - 9 October 1819, Augsburg) was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop and bishop of Augsburg (the first after it ceased to be the Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg), as well as vicar general of Neuwürttemberg.

Life

Descended from the Hohenlohe dynasty, he was the son of Prince Karl Albrecht I. zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (22 September 1719 - 25 January 1793) and his first wife Sophie Wilhelmine zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (7 August 1720 - 29 September 1749).^[1] Educated by Jesuits, he studied in Parma and Strasbourg and was ordained priest in Cologne on 7 April 1787. He later served as dean of Ellwangen Abbey and a canon in Cologne, Vienna and Strasbourg. Under Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, the last Prince-Bishop of Augbsurg, Hohenlohe was appointed as an auxiliary bishop in the Augsburg diocese and titular bishop of Tempe, both on 9 August 1802, shortly before it was secularised. He was consecrated as a bishop of 5 September 1802 by Clemens in the Pfarrkirche in Marktoberdorf, with the assistance of the abbots of St. Mang's Abbey and Irsee Abbey.

When the prince-bishopric was secularised, it initially remained within its existing borders.

References

1. ↑ Genealogische Seite zu Eltern und Geschwistern

Bibliography

• Frank Raberg: Biographisches Handbuch der württembergischen Landtagsabgeordneten 1815–1933. Im Auftrag der Kommission für geschichtliche Landeskunde in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2, S. 388.
• Friedrich Lauchert: Hohenlohe-Waldenburg, Franz Prinz zu. In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Band 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, S. 441 f.
• Franz Xaver von Funk: Die katholische Landesuniversität Ellwangen und ihre Verlegung nach Tübingen. In: Festgabe zum Fünfundzwanzigjährigen Regierungsjubiläum seiner Majestät des Königs Karl von Württemberg. In Ehrfurcht dargebracht von der Universität Tübingen. Laupp, Tübingen 1889, getrennte Zählung S. 1–30, hier S. 6–27 (Auch Sonderabdruck).
• Ignaz von Longner: Beiträge zur Geschichte der oberrheinischen Kirchenprovinz. Laupp, Tübingen 1863, S. 362–394.
• Stephan Jakob Neher (ed.): Statistischer Personal-Katalog des Bisthums Rottenburg. Festschrift zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum dieses Bisthums. Schmid, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1878, S. 7.

External links

• Franz Karl Joseph Fürst von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst on www.catholic-hierarchy.org