Franz von Lodron

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Franz Graf von Lodron (* 1614 in Concesio near Brescia; † November 30, 1652 in Trento ) was Bishop of Gurk .

Life

Franz von Lodron was born the son of Hieronymus Graf von Lodron and his wife Julia de Zanetti. His older brother Sebastian was his predecessor in the episcopate of Gurk. As a 16-year-old he received the canonical from Pope Urban VIII in 1630 at the Cathedral of Trento, in 1632 he became canon in Salzburg, in 1639 provost of St. Mauritzen in Friesach . From 1635 to 1640 he studied at the Collegium Germanicum in Rome.

On September 30, 1643 he was appointed by the Archbishop of Salzburg to succeed his brother as Prince-Bishop of Gurk, on March 5, 1644 he was confirmed and the following day he was ordained bishop in Salzburg.

His government fell in difficult times and was marked by the last period of the Thirty Years War and by a plague epidemic in Strasbourg in 1646/1647 .

In 1646 he received from his metropolitan, the Archbishop of Salzburg, the general power of attorney to consecrate churches, altars and bells in the part of Carinthia belonging to the archdiocese.

After being rescued from a dangerous fall, he had the Loretto Church built in Strasbourg in 1650 , and had the painter Johann Seitlinger attach the pictures of the Gurk bishops to his castle in Strasbourg, but only remnants are left of them.

In 1652 Bishop Lodron visited his father in Concesio. He died in Trento on the way home. His body was transferred to Concesio and buried next to his brother in the family crypt. His wish to be buried in the Loretto Church in Strasbourg did not come true.

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SURNAME Lodron, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lodron, Franz Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian clergyman, Bishop of Gurk (1643–1652)
DATE OF BIRTH 1614
PLACE OF BIRTH Concesio near Brescia
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1652
Place of death Trent