Imre Csáky (Cardinal)

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Imre Cardinal Csáky

Imre Count Csáky de Körösszeg et Adorján (born October 28, 1672 at the Spiš Castle ( Hungarian Szepesvár ); † August 28, 1732 at the Skalca Castle near Nagyvárad ) was a cardinal of the Roman Church . His first name is also given as Emerico .

Life

Origin and early years

He was the son of Count István Csáky and his second wife Klára Melith. He was the older half-brother of Nikolaus Csáky , who later became Archbishop of Gran and Prince Primate of Hungary. Already destined for a spiritual career as a child, he became Commendatarabbot of Kereki on March 2, 1682 . On August 5th of the same year he began his training until 1688 at the Jesuit college in Kaschau , which lasted until 1688, after which he attended the chapter school there and finally the Collegium Pazmanianum founded by Péter Pázmány in Vienna , which he completed in 1693 with a doctorate in philosophy. In the same year he became a canon of the Cathedral Chapter of Eger and received on December 18, 1694 diaconate . Further studies led him to the Collegium Germanico-Hungaricum in Rome , where he arrived Sept. 5, 1695 to the doctor of theology doctorate was. In June 1695 he returned to Hungary .

Church career

The ordination received Imre Csáky on 1 May 1696 after he served as priest in Kosice operates. In 1699 he found himself a member of a commission that was supposed to regulate the affairs of the Habsburg countries and traveled to Vienna on this matter, on June 30, 1701 he was appointed advisor to the King of Hungary. The following year he was Vice Chancellor of the royal court. On August 8, 1702 he became Canon of the Metropolitan Chapter of Esztergom and left the Eger Cathedral Chapter because of personal differences with Provost András Pethes .

On June 25, 1703 Imre Csáky was appointed bishop of Nagyvárad ( Great Oradine ). He was ordained bishop on August 5th of the same year by the Archbishop of Salzburg Franz Anton von Harrach zu Rorau . Imre Csáky took part in the Pressburg National Assembly of 1708. In 1710 he became provost of the collegiate church in Bratislava ( Pressburg ). On November 19, 1714 he was finally Archbishop of Kalocsa-Bács , but kept the bishopric Nagyvárad and Pozsony as administrator for a period of five years, he was also administrator of the diocese of Eger. Pope Clement XI. awarded him the pallium on February 4, 1715 .

During his term of office, the foundation stone was laid for the cathedral of Kalocsa, which still exists today, in the Italian baroque style .

Pope Clement XI. appointed him cardinal in the consistory of July 12, 1717 in pectore , which was published on October 1, 1717. In 1718 he attempted to catalog Hungary's mineral springs. Imre Cardinal Csáky participated in the conclave of 1721 , which Pope Innocent XIII. chose. On June 16, 1721, Sant'Eusebio was given to him as a Roman titular church . He did not participate in the conclave of 1724 with the election of Benedict XIII. still at the conclave of 1730 with the election of Clemens XII. part.

Death and burial

Cardinal Imre Csáky died on August 28, 1732 at Skalca Castle near Nagyvárad , which he had built himself, and was buried in the Piarist Church of St. Anne in Debrecen .

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SURNAME Csáky, Imre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adorján, Imre Count Csáky de Körösszeg et; Csáky, Emerico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cardinal of the Roman Church
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1672
PLACE OF BIRTH Spiš Castle
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1732
Place of death Castle Skalca at Nagyvárad