Franz Karl Joseph Fürst von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
Franz Xaver Joseph Karl Fürst zu Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillingsfuerst ( born November 27, 1745 in Waldenburg, † October 9, 1819 in Augsburg) was Auxiliary Bishop and Bishop of Augsburg and Vicar General of Neuwürttemberg.
Life and work
Franz Karl Joseph was descended from the House of Hohenlohe. He was the son of Prince Karl Albrecht I of Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillingsfuerst ( born September 22, 1719 † January 25, 1793 ) and his first wife Sophie Wilhelmine zu Löwenstein -Wertheim -Rochefort ( born August 7, 1720 † 29. September 1749 ).
He was educated by the Jesuits, studied in Parma and in Strasbourg and received on 7 April 1787 Cologne ordination. Later, he served as dean of Duke Provost Ellwangen, as well as a canon in Cologne, Vienna and Strasbourg. Under Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, the last Prince-Bishop of Augsburg, became Hohenlohe to the Bishop, shortly before the bishopric was secularized on August 9, 1802. At the same time he received the dignity of titular bishop of Tempe. The consecration issued to him on September 5, the year his archbishop, in the parish church at market Oberndorf, with the assistance of the Abbots of Irsee and feet.
After the secularization of the Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg in the spiritual realm, in its old borders persisted initially.
In the fall of 1812, created a Generalvikariat led by Auxiliary Bishop Hohenlohe for the fallen to Württemberg parts of the Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg in Ellwangen after the death of Bishop Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony. Failed The initial plan of the Elector Friedrich to create from the Generalvikariat a diocese of Württemberg Ellwangen; anyway by the state established the Ordinariate lacked the ecclesiastical confirmation. Hohenlohe took it as an administrator at the Württemberg Diet meetings, in the years 1815-1817. As his closest colleague and confidant, the priest Joseph acted Mets ( 1758-1819 ), a friend, Johann Michael Sailer, who has excellent administrative skills, as opposed to Hohenlohe. Between 1813 and 1817 the auxiliary bishop resided solely in Ellwangen and, during this time not to Augsburg and now in the Bavarian diocese part to make Pontifikalhandlungen there. By a brief of March 21, 1816 Pope Pius VII confirmed the establishment of the Generalvikariats Ellwangen and explained the there that have been made by Bishop Hohenlohe ecclesiastical acts to be valid. The Vicar General, Johann Baptist von Keller, later, first Bishop of Rottenburg, as Pro-Vicar given to the side and the Vicar General moved his seat in the fall of 1817 to Rottenburg am Neckar; 1821 originated from the Württemberg diocese Rottenburg.
For the fallen to Bavaria parts of the old diocese of Augsburg Generalvikariat was also created in 1812, which was headed by the canons Franz Friedrich of Sturmfeder; he resided in Augsburg. Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillingsfuerst retired in May 1817 go back there and took up his functions as Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg again as he left the Provicar the line of stores in Ellwangen or Rottenburg.
On February 5, 1818 he was named Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillings prince bishop of the new frontiers in resurrected, now purely Bavarian diocese of Augsburg; but he died already on 9 October 1819. Thereupon headed Sturmfeder now as vicar, the diocese buried to the east choir in the Augsburg Cathedral at Sunrise to hold office until the successor Joseph Maria of Mrs. Berg, 1821. Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillingsfuerst was.
The nephew of the bishop was Alexander zu Hohenlohe- Waldenburg - Schillingsfuerst, Titular Bishop of Sardica. He'd 1814-1815, held up as a student of theology with his uncle in Ellwangen. Johann Michael Sailer, who later became Bishop of Regensburg held him there in 1815, the first Mass sermon.