Carlo Gaetano Gaisruck

Carlo Gaetano II Count of Gaisruck, actually Charles Cajetan Count of Gaisruck (also: Gaysruck ) ( born August 7, 1769 in Klagenfurt, Austria, † November 19, 1846 in Milan ), Archbishop of Milan ( was since March 1, 1818 ) and Cardinal ( since September 27, 1824).

Life

He was the son of the governor of Upper Galicia, his mother was Italian. He studied in Salzburg and Passau. On September 15, 1788, he was ordained a priest in Passau.

On July 20, 1801, he was appointed Titular Bishop of Derbe, and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Passau. The bishop He was ordained on 23 August of the same year Bishop of Passau, Leopold Leonhard von Thun.

Graf was Gaisruck 1818 archbishop of Milan by the influence of the Habsburgs. In 1824 he was appointed cardinal in 1829 he was Cardinal Priest of the titular church of San Marco.

After the death of Pope Gregory XVI. (1831-1846) traveled cardinal of Gaisruck for the conclave in Rome, with the presumed order of the Emperor, the Exclusive, a controversial veto, speak out against the Italian liberal Cardinal Giovanni Maria Mastai - force Ferretti. According to other sources, however, the Cardinal Exclusive to Pasquale Gizzi have been considered. But Cardinal Gaisruck traveled without haste and arrived late in Rome. The conclave had chosen before his arrival, already on June 16, 1846, Count Mastai Ferretti - Pope, the Pius IX. called it.

Five months after the conclave, on November 19, 1846, died the very popular among the people of Cardinal Gaisruck. He is buried in the Cathedral of Milan.