Anton Kautschitz

Anton Kautschitz (born December 8, 1743 in Idria, today's Idrija in Slovenia ; † March 17, 1814 ) was auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and bishop of the Diocese of Ljubljana, today the Archdiocese of Ljubljana .

Life

Coat of arms stone of Bishop Kautschitz above the portal of the so-called Schloss Kirnberg ( Dechantei der Dompropstei St. Stephan) in Kirnberg an der Mank .

On October 20, 1761, Kautschitz joined the Society of Jesus , the Jesuit order, and belonged to it until its abolition in 1773 . He was ordained a priest on November 30, 1773 and received his doctorate in theology in 1775 . In 1783 he came to Wiener Neustadt and was appointed director of the consistorial chancellery of the diocese of Wiener Neustadt . In the course of Josephinism , the Wiener Neustädter diocese was dissolved in 1785 and he moved to St. Pölten in the same year , where he worked in the same capacity until 1790 under Bishop Johann Heinrich von Kerens in the newly created diocese of St. Pölten . In 1785 Kerens appointed him titular canon and in 1790 real canon. After Kerens died in 1792, Kautschitz served the new bishop Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart . He was appointed archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna in 1803 and Kautschitz followed him to Vienna in the same year. There he worked as vicar general until 1807 . In the autumn of 1805 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and titular bishop of Zela . In 1807 he was appointed bishop of the diocese of Ljubljana after his predecessor Michael Leopold Brigido von Marenfels and Bresoviz became bishop of the diocese of Spis in what is now Slovakia.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Catholic hierarchy: Bishop Anton Kautschitz ; Retrieved December 10, 2012
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d topography of Lower Austria ; published by the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Volume 5, Vienna 1903
↑ Erwin Gatz , Stephan M. Janker: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648 to 1803 , Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, 1990
^ Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 .
^ Catholic hierarchy: Michael Léopold Brigido von Marenfels and Bresoviz ; Retrieved December 10, 2012

personal data
SURNAME	Kautschitz, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Bishop of Laibach
DATE OF BIRTH	December 8, 1743
PLACE OF BIRTH	Idria, today's Idrija
DATE OF DEATH	March 17, 1814

[CH-1] Catholic hierarchy: Bishop Anton Kautschitz ; Retrieved December 10, 2012

[TG-2] topography of Lower Austria ; published by the Association for Regional Studies of Lower Austria, Volume 5, Vienna 1903

[3] Erwin Gatz , Stephan M. Janker: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648 to 1803 , Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, 1990

[4] Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the German-speaking countries 1785/1803 to 1945. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-428-05447-4 .

[5] Catholic hierarchy: Michael Léopold Brigido von Marenfels and Bresoviz ; Retrieved December 10, 2012