Anton Josef von Lamberg

Anton Josef von Lamberg (born December 4, 1687 in Brugg , † June 28, 1755 in Regensburg ) was auxiliary bishop and provost in Passau.

Life

Anton Josef, Imperial Count von Lamberg, came from the Carniolan branch of the Lamberg family on Stain and Gutenberg (near Tržič / Neumarktl) - like the first Ljubljana Bishop Sigismund von Lamberg († June 8, 1488 ). He was born on December 4, 1687 in Brugg in the Diocese of Laibach and was a son of Count Franz Adam I von Lamberg, Freiherr auf Stain and Gutenberg, state councilor in Krain , from his marriage to Anna Elisabetha Freiin von Juritsch zum Strugg. He studied from 1705 to 1708 as an alumne of the Diocese of Ljubljana at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome. In 1708 he became canon in Passau, and in 1710 in Regensburg. The inscription on the back of his portrait in the Tulln rectory also names him as the imperial chaplain in Regensburg.

Ordained a priest in Passau on May 25, 1727, he was official and vicar general of the Bishop of Passau for the region above the Enns from 1727 to 1733 . On March 5, 1733 he was appointed suffragan bishop for Upper Austria and on May 3, 1733 in Passau by Prince-Bishop Joseph Dominikus von Lamberg , his distant relative, consecrated Bishop of Lete in partibus . As such, he also took over the parish of Tulln , where he had already worked under his predecessor Johann Raimund von Lamberg .

Numerous official acts and ordinations have come down to us from Bishop Lamberg. As early as 1734, his first visitation and company trips took him to Marchfeld and its surroundings. In May 1737 he consecrated the high altar of the Franciscan church in Ybbs , and in 1737 the first pilgrimage church in Maria Dreieichen . In Tulln he consecrated the branch church of St. Sigmund, Rochus and Sebastian in front of the city in 1738, the Johannes Nepomuk altar in the parish church of St. Stephan and on June 13, 1739 the newly built Minorite Church . He also consecrated some churches in Bavaria, for example the church of the Osterhofen monastery in 1740 . In May 1740 he infuled the provost of the Dürnstein monastery , Maximilian Leeb, and in June 1746 the newly elected abbot of the Geras monastery . Connected with these ordinations were mostly confirmations of large groups of confirmers in the area.

On May 28, 1747 his resignation as auxiliary bishop, for which he had already applied for health reasons at the beginning of August 1746, was accepted. His successor as a suffragan was Johann Christoph Graf Kuenburg on August 15th . Kuenburg also took over the parish of Tulln, to which Bishop Lamberg had also resigned on March 22, 1747. Later, his health seems to have been restored to such an extent that he was able to take over the office of Provost of the Cathedral in Passau in 1752. As such, he celebrated solemn high offices together with Count Kuenburg in Passau on October 13 and 14, 1753 on the occasion of the octave of the golden jubilee of Cardinal Joseph Dominikus.

He died in Regensburg in 1755 and was buried there too.

literature

• Walpurga Oppeker: "" Our Bishop of Thulln "- The Bishop's Court of Tulln and His Lords", in: Heidemarie Bachhofer (Ed.): New research on the history of the Tulln-St. Stephan. St. Pölten 2014, pp. 349–355
• August Leidl : "Lamberg, Anton Joseph", in: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648–1803. Berlin: Duncker and Humblot, 1990, p. 255
• August Leidl: The Diocese of Passau between the Vienna Concordat (1448) and the present: short portraits of the Passau bishops, auxiliary bishops, officials (vicars general) of this epoch. Passavia, 1993
• Franz Karl Wißgrill : scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lords and knights of the XI. Century on, except for the present time, volume 5. F. Seizer, Vienna 1804, p. 191

Web links

• Entry on Anton Josef von Lamberg on catholic-hierarchy.org