Ferdinand von Lüninck

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Baron Ferdinand Hermann Maria von Lüninck (born February 15, 1755 in Gleuel , † March 18, 1825 in Corvey ) was Prince-Bishop of Corvey and Bishop of Münster .

Life

Grave in Corvey cemetery

He came from the old Lower Rhine noble family von Lüninck . He spent his youth at the Cologne Jesuit College and at the Kurkölnischer Hof, where he received his education. After studying law in Göttingen , he worked at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar . In 1779 he became a real councilor and councilor in Bonn in the Archbishopric of Cologne . Later also active at the Higher Appeal Court, there was no further rise, so that he turned to the clergy and in 1785 became a cleric . Equipped with a cathedral canonical in Münster since 1791, he completed his designated biennium in Rome, where he drove the conversion of Corvey into a diocese on behalf of his cousin, the Corvey abbot Theodor von Brabeck , and brought it to a conclusion in 1792, for which he brought with him a position as domicellar in the newly built cathedral chapter at Corvey was equipped. After Brabeck died unexpectedly in 1794, he was elected second Bishop of Corvey on December 16, 1794 and confirmed by the Pope on June 1, 1795. Now ordained a priest on August 6, 1795 in Hildesheim, he was ordained bishop on September 6, 1795 by the Archbishop of Cologne, Maximilian Franz von Österreich , in Münster.

After Corvey's secularization , Lüninck stayed temporarily in Münster and Kassel , and after Prussia took over the Prince-Bishopric of Münster, he was also temporarily traded as the bishop of Münster. On August 28, 1820, Pope Pius VII pronounced the translation to Münster, where he was not enthroned until July 7, 1821. At his own request, he also continued to administer his former diocese of Corvey, but he was no longer granted a long office. Already in the autumn of 1821 an illness, which later led to a complete mental breakdown, caused him to return to Corvey, where he died four years later and was buried.

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predecessor Office successor
Maximilian Franz of Austria Bishop of Münster
1820 - 1825 		Kaspar Maximilian von Droste-Vischering
personal data
SURNAME Lüninck, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lüninck, Ferdinand Hermann Maria von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince-Bishop of Corvey and Bishop of Munster
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1755
PLACE OF BIRTH Gleuel
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1825
Place of death Corvey