Godfried Joseph Crüts van Creits

Gottfried Joseph Crüts van Creits (* 1757 (baptized on March 11th) in Maastricht , † April 5th, 1815 in St. Pölten ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of St. Pölten from 1806 to 1815 and Apostolic Field Vicar of the Austrian from 1803 to 1815 Armies.

In 1779 Crüts received his doctorate in both rights and after his ordination (September 18, 1784) was appointed by his uncle Johann Heinrich von Kerens , then Bishop of St. Pölten and apostolic field vicar, as auditor causarum to the kk field consistory in Vienna and by Joseph II . appointed provost of the titular provost in Dornau (Hungary). On July 25, 1789, Cruits became vicar general and cathedral capitular of the diocese of St. Pölten and, after the death of Bishop Kerens, capitular vicar . Under Bishop Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart he was again vicar general in 1974 and on July 28, 1803 (after Hohenwart's translation to Vienna) he was again capitular vicar and simultaneously apostolic field vicar. On March 14, 1806, he was finally nominated bishop of St. Pölten by Emperor Franz II / Franz I and consecrated in Vienna on October 5.

literature

• 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 .
• Bielik, Emerich: History of the KuK military pastoral care and the Apostolic Field Vicariate: on the order of His Episcopal Grace of the Most Revered Mr. Apostolic Field Vicar Dr. Coloman Belopotoczky; Vienna 1901