Emerich Sinelli

Bishop Emerich Sinelli

Emerich Sinelli OFMCap (born June 29, 1622 in Komorn , Kingdom of Hungary , today in Slovakia , † February 23, 1685 in Vienna ) was a Capuchin and Bishop of Vienna .

Family name also: Sennel , Sinnel .

Life

He was born the son of the butcher Michael Senelli from Rome and baptized Johann Anton . He studied in Linz and then philosophy in Ingolstadt , joined the Capuchin order at the age of 21 and took the name of the order Emerich (also: Emmerich ). 1644 he put the Capuchin monastery in Gmunden the perpetual vows from. He was first a mission preacher for the conversion of Protestants in northern Lower Austria , then in Prague and in the Schottenkirche in Vienna . In his speeches he also denounced the grievances at court and the greed of dignitaries and became the adviser to Emperor Leopold I. The deportation of the Jews from Leopoldstadt in 1670 took place on his advice.

On November 17, 1680, the emperor appointed him Prince-Bishop of Vienna. As a beggar monk, he did not want to accept this honor. Pope Innocent XI. had to order him to be accepted through the apostolic nuncio . On May 4, 1681 he was ordained bishop by Nuncio Francesco Buonvisi (1626–1700) . Sinelli was first Imperial Privy Councilor and first Minister in 1682, but continued to live very modestly. In his episcopal functions he was represented by the Bishop of Wiener Neustadt , Leopold Karl von Kollonitsch .

During his tenure, the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna fell in 1683, during which Marco d'Aviano served as papal legate in Vienna. Sinelli left the besieged city with the imperial court. After the victorious battle on the Kahlenberg , Sinelli returned to Vienna on September 14th, together with the emperor, and initiated the reconstruction of the destroyed churches.

He did not live to see the elevation to cardinal because he died earlier. He is buried in the bishop 's crypt in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna .

See also: History of Christianity in Austria

literature

• Anton Victor Felgel:  Emmerich: Pater (Johann Anton Sennel or Sinell) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 86.
• Helga Kirchberger:  Emerich Sinelli. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 477 ( digitized version ).
• Rudolf Leeb among other things: History of Christianity in Austria. From antiquity to the present . Uebereuter, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-8000-3914-1
• Franz Loidl : History of the Archdiocese of Vienna . Herold, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7008-0223-4
• Ernst Tomek : Church history of Austria . Tyrolia, Innsbruck - Vienna - Munich 1935–59

Web links

• Entry on Emerich Sinelli in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Entry to Emerich Sinelli on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilderich Freiherr von Walderdorff	Bishop of Vienna 1681 - 1685	Ernest Graf von Trautson