Franz Konrad von Stadion und Thannhausen

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Franz Konrad von Stadion und Thannhausen (1679–1757) was the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1753 to 1757.

Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg An ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire

The Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg was an ecclesiastical State of the Holy Roman Empire. It goes back to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bamberg established at the 1007 synod in Frankfurt, at the behest of King Henry II to further expand the spread of Christianity in the Franconian lands. The bishops obtained the status of Imperial immediacy about 1245 and ruled their estates as Prince-bishops until they were subsumed to the Electorate of Bavaria in the course of the German Mediatisation in 1802.

Biography

Franz Konrad von Stadion und Thannhausen was born in Arnstein on 29 August 1679. [1] He became a canon of Bamberg Cathedral in 1695. He was sent to Rome and Angers to study. In 1709, the Archbishop of Mainz named him ambassador to the court of Saxony. He became a member of the cathedral chapter of Würzburg Cathedral in 1719. He was ordained as a priest on 2 February 1724. [1] He became provost of Würzburg Cathedral in 1729.

Stadion was a statelet of the Holy Roman Empire, located around Thannhausen in the present-day Bavarian administrative region of Swabia, Germany.

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Arnstein is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany.

On 23 July 1753 he was appointed Prince-Bishop of Bamberg, with Pope Benedict XIV confirming the appointment on 26 September 1753. [1] He was consecrated as a bishop by Heinrich Joseph von Nitschke, auxiliary bishop of Bamberg on 4 November 1753. [1]

Pope Benedict XIV 18th-century Catholic pope

Pope Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church from 17 August 1740 to his death in 1758.

A bishop is an ordained, consecrated, or appointed member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.

Auxiliary bishop position

An auxiliary bishop is a bishop assigned to assist the diocesan bishop in meeting the pastoral and administrative needs of the diocese. Auxiliary bishops can also be titular bishops of sees that no longer exist.

He died on 6 March 1757 and is buried in Bamberg Cathedral.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Johann Philipp Anton von Franckenstein
Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
1753–1757
Succeeded by
Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim