Anton Ferdinand von Rothkirch and Panthen

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Anton Ferdinand von Rothkirch and Panthen (born July 9, 1739 in Hönigsdorf, Grottkau district , Silesia , † April 21, 1805 in Breslau ) was Apostolic Vicar and Auxiliary Bishop in Breslau .

Career

Anton Ferdinand von Rothkirch und Panthen attended grammar school in Neisse and then studied philosophy in Breslau , where he became cathedral capitular in 1756 . 1757–1760 he studied theology in Rome as an alumne at the Collegium Germanicum and obtained a doctorate in theology . In 1763 he was ordained a priest in Breslau . The collegiate monastery in Neisse appointed him dean in 1774 .

At the request of the Prussian King Frederick the Great , the Holy See appointed Rothkirch on August 25, 1781 auxiliary bishop in Breslau and titular bishop of Paphus . The episcopal ordination took place on August 19, 1781, the auxiliary bishop of Poznan Ludwig von Mathy.

The simultaneous appointment as Apostolic Vicar for the Prussian part of the Breslau diocese was necessary because Prince-Bishop Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch had been in the Austrian part of the diocese since 1766 and was prevented from administering the Prussian part of the diocese.

Although Silesian Catholicism initially rejected Prussian rule and state church sovereignty , Rothkirch tried to establish a trusting relationship with Karl Georg Heinrich von Hoym , the Minister of State for the Province of Silesia .

When Prince-Bishop Hohenlohe took office in 1795, Rothkirch's position as Apostolic Vicar ended. He turned down a position in the clerical administration of South Prussia offered to him in 1796 for health reasons. After a long illness he died in Breslau in 1805.

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SURNAME Rothkirch and Panthen, Anton Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Auxiliary Bishop and Vicar Apostolic of Breslau
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Hönigsdorf, Grottkau district , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1805
Place of death Wroclaw