Johann Brunetti

Johann Brunetti (also Johannes Brunetti ; Jan Brunetti ; Italian Giovanni Brunetti ; * 1646 in Massa , Province of Massa-Carrara ; † March 28, 1703 in Neisse , Principality of Neisse ) was titular bishop of Lacedaemonia as well as auxiliary bishop , vicar general and official in Breslau . After November 13, 1700 he was also regional president of the episcopal principality of Neisse.

Life

His parents were Lazarus Brunetti and Clelia, née Guerra. From 1666 to 1668 Johann studied law at the Sapienza in Rome, which he had to leave for health reasons. He continued his studies in Vienna, where he was on April 22, 1669 by the Apostolic Nuncio Pignatelli, who later became Pope Innocent XII. received the tonsure and on November 26th d. J. was assigned a canonical at the Wroclaw Cathedral . On March 20, 1670 he finished his studies at the University of Cracow with a doctorate in law . On April 5, 1670, the Breslau auxiliary bishop Karl Franz Neander von Petersheide in Neisse gave him the low consecration . When he wanted to take possession of his Breslau benefice, difficulties arose with the Breslau cathedral chapter , which could only be resolved at the beginning of 1672 with the help of the Breslau bishop Sebastian von Rostock and the sodality of the Annunciation , of which he had become a member. On December 23, 1673, he was ordained a priest by Auxiliary Bishop Neander in the Breslau Cathedral and initially appointed as a clergyman in episcopal services. In 1677 he received a canonical at the Glogau collegiate chapter , which his older brother Johann Jakob had renounced. In 1680 he was promoted to Apostolic Protonotary .

After the election of Bishop Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg in 1683, Johann Brunetti transferred important positions. Since Auxiliary Bishop Neander resided in Neisse, Brunetti was his representative in Breslau in the office of the official. In 1684 he received an additional canonical at the Breslauer Kreuzstift . In 1691 he and his brother Johann Jakob Brunetti, who had also achieved high ecclesiastical dignity, and his nephew Lazarus Ambrosius Brunetti were raised to the bohemian knighthood by the Bohemian king, Emperor Leopold I.

After Neander's death in 1693, Johann Brunetti succeeded him in the office of auxiliary bishop. The papal confirmation took place on September 17th, 1693 and on October 5th. J. he received the titular bishopric Lacedaemonia. Soon there were disputes with the cathedral chapter about the hierarchy with which various privileges were connected. In 1698 he was sent by the bishop to the emperor in Vienna, where he was supposed to negotiate about the handover of the Protestant Liegnitz castle church to the Jesuits . After returning from Vienna, he was elected procurator of the Johanneshospital for poor students by the cathedral chapter . In this position he campaigned for the restoration of the Neumarkt provost church, which was part of the hospital's property. After completion, the church was consecrated by him on October 21, 1700. In addition, he set up a foundation on her, from which every Saturday and Marian feasts should be celebrated and the Lauretanian litany should be sung.

Many ordinations of priests as well as several abbots and prelates are known from his pontifical activity. In addition to numerous altars, chalices and bells, he consecrated the Ottmachau parish church on September 6, 1694 .

After the death of the canon Karl von Butschky on November 13, 1700, he succeeded him as district president of Neisse. He then resided in Neisse, where he died on March 28, 1703. His body was buried in the sacrament chapel built by his brother Johann Jakob in Breslau Cathedral. His nephew and heir, Baron Lazarus Ambrosius von Brunetti, who was imperial privy councilor and chief chancellor of Silesia, erected a black marble monument for him there.

literature

• Joseph Jungnitz : The auxiliary bishops of Breslau . Verlag von Franz Goerlich, Breslau 1914. pp. 181–191.

Web links

• bbrunj .html Entry on Johann Brunetti on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on December 17, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Jakob Brunetti followed his compatriot Dominikus Farrusius, who was provost at Neisser Kreustift from 1644 to 1655, to Silesia. After his death he became provost of the Neisser Kreuzstift, also a canon and later a scholastic at the Breslauer Dom, provost of the Opole collegiate foundation, canon of the Neisser collegiate foundation as well as episcopal official and vicar general. Erected the sacrament chapel on the south portal of the Wroclaw Cathedral in 1672; † March 22, 1692.