Filippo Maria Visconti (bishop)

Filippo Maria Visconti ( born August 19, 1721 Massino Visconti, Italy, † December 30, 1801 in Lyon) was Archbishop of Milan.

Life

Filippo Maria Visconti, who came from an old Italian noble family, was ordained a priest on May 31 in 1749. Through his relationship with the former Archbishop Federico Visconti, he quickly rose to the provost of the cathedral chapter of Milan.

On June 25, 1784, he was appointed as the new Archbishop of Milan. He received episcopal consecration only two days later by Cardinal Eugenio Antonio Visconti. Co-consecrators were Girolamo Volpi and Francesco Saverio Cristiani. After traveling the new archbishop to Rome, probably by the support of Pope Pius VI. to secure. In view of the work of his predecessor Giuseppe Pozzobonelli and his rather simple character kept him many unfit for the office. Compared to the Habsburg Monarchy to the Lombardy belonged at that time, and the state-church efforts Josephinism Visconti showed very compliant. So he left on the instructions of Joseph II a historic building institute, founded by Federico Borromeo, the Austrian administration as the seat of government (now the Palazzo del Senato ). He also agreed to the closure of the St. Charles Borromeo built Tridentine seminaries and the creation of a new state-controlled seminar in Pavia.

When in 1800 Napoleon's troops arrived in Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti had to flee to Padua, but was later able to return little to Milan. The following year he died 80 years old in Lyon, where he had traveled on behalf of the French government. He was buried in the Cathedral of Milan later.