Franz Dominikus von Almesloe
Franz Dominikus von Almesloe (also Franz Dominikus Reichsgraf von Almesloe, Freiherr von Tappe ; born February 10, 1704 in Jauer , Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer ; † March 1, 1760 in Breslau ) was titular bishop of Cambysopolis and from 1743 to 1760 auxiliary bishop in Breslau .
Life
Franz Dominikus von Almesloe came from an originally Frisian noble family. His parents were Justus Wilhelm Anton von Almesloe, Imperial Councilor and Governor of the Bohemian Hereditary Principality of Schweidnitz-Jauer and Maria, née von Nostitz , who brought the rule of Bertelsdorf am Queis into the marriage. As a result, the father called himself heir to Bertelsdorf, Hartau and Faulbrück near Reichenbach .
Franz Dominic studied at Breslau Jesuit College , the humanities and 1725-1728 Law at the Charles University in Prague . There the then Auxiliary Bishop of Prague Daniel Joseph Mayer von Mayern awarded him the tonsure and the minor orders . After completing his master's degree and being ordained a priest , he returned to Silesia at the end of 1728 and initially worked as the provost and archpriest of Költschen in pastoral care. As a pastor he is said to have turned to the sick and poor in particular.
From November 1736 he resided as a canon at the Breslau Cathedral . Although he did not develop any particular zeal as a canon, he was only said to be mediocre erudition and therefore lacked the support of the cathedral chapter, the Wroclaw Bishop Philipp Ludwig von Sinzendorf elected him to succeed the respected auxiliary bishop Elias Daniel von Sommerfeld, who died in 1742 . Despite the known concerns, Almesloe received the papal confirmation on January 28, 1743 at the same time as the appointment as titular bishop of Cambysopolis . After the First Silesian War , when most of Silesia fell to Prussia , he was the first auxiliary bishop of Breslau who required the approval of the Prussian king for the appointment. Since he was addicted to gambling, he found himself in great financial distress at this time. Because of his gambling debts, he turned to the cathedral chapter in 1744, from which he unsuccessfully requested a loan. To pay off his debts, the income of his canonical was withheld from January 1747. Although his father undertook to pay for the debt, the auxiliary bishop finally had to sell the paternal inheritance to Count Hans Ferdinand von Sandreczky on December 12, 1749 .
Since the state church ideas of the Prussian King Friedrich II were rejected by Auxiliary Bishop Almesloe and other members of the cathedral chapter, Almesloe got into political difficulties from 1747 and consequently in disgrace with the king. When, after the death of Bishop Sinzendorf on September 28, 1747, the king appointed his self-appointed coadjutor Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch as his successor, the Pope first gave the auxiliary bishop Almesloe the power to temporarily assume the episcopal functions. After Schaffgotsch received papal confirmation or appointment on March 4, 1748, he was on May 1 d. J. consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Almesloe. Co-consecrators were Abbots Vinzenz von St. Vinzenz in Breslau, Benno von Braunau , Gerard von Heinrichau and Benedikt von Grüssau . Soon, however, there were disputes over rank between the bishop and the auxiliary bishop, which lasted until 1757. They lost their effectiveness because Almesloe had to leave Breslau within an hour by royal orders on September 1, 1756, after Schaffgotsch had accused him of treason . He was brought to Magdeburg and, despite repeated efforts by the cathedral chapter, was not released until February 11, 1759. The background to the release was that Bishop Schaffgotsch had fled Wroclaw at the beginning of the Seven Years' War in 1757 and relocated his seat to Jauernig in the Habsburg part of his diocese, which also caused him to fall out of favor with the king. Auxiliary Bishop Almesloe was brought back to Breslau to remedy the emergency that had arisen with regard to pontifical acts. Since he was in poor health, he gave the upcoming ordinations mainly in his house chapel. He died a year later and was buried in the cathedral's canon crypt.
literature
- Joseph Jungnitz : The auxiliary bishops of Breslau. Verlag von Franz Goerlich, Breslau 1914, pp. 222–242.
Web links
- Entry on Franz Dominikus von Almesloe on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on January 2, 2017.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Almesloe, Franz Dominikus von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tappe, Franz Dominikus Reichsgraf von Almesloe Freiherr von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Titular Bishop of Cambysopolis and Auxiliary Bishop in Breslau |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1704 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jauer , Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1760 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |