Johann Moritz von Strachwitz
Johann Moritz von Strachwitz (born February 3, 1721 in Freyhan ; † January 28, 1781 in Breslau ) was Apostolic Vicar , Vicar General and Auxiliary Bishop in Breslau .
Life
Johann Moritz came from the von Strachwitz noble family . His parents were Johann Friedrich von Strachwitz, heir of Czieschowa , General of the Cavalry, and Sophie Elisabeth, née. Freiin von Frankenberg. He studied in Breslau and then in Rome, where he was ordained a priest and obtained a doctorate in theology .
After he had been a canon in Breslau since 1743 , he returned to Silesia in 1744 and became pastor in Namslau , in 1748 pastor and archpriest in Patschkau and Breslau dean . Later he successively became assessor of the vicar general von Frankenberg, the consistory and the episcopal court judge. Pope Clement XIII. appointed him titular bishop of Tiberias and auxiliary bishop in Breslau in 1761 , where he was also vicar general from 1763 to 1766.
After Prince-Bishop Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch left Breslau because of the Seven Years' War and resided in the Austrian part of the diocese, Strachwitz was appointed by the Pope as apostolic vicar of the Prussian part of the Wroclaw diocese in 1766 with the consent of the Prussian King Friedrich II . In 1777 Strachwitz commissioned the Breslau canon Franz Nikolaus von Troilo to report to the Pope on the current state of the diocese of Breslau .
During his term of office, the administrative restructuring of Silesia, which had become necessary due to the final transition to Prussia , fell.
literature
- Claudia Zonta: Silesian students at Italian universities. (PDF) A prosopographical study on the early modern history of education. Archived from the original on December 27, 2008 ; accessed on August 23, 2019 .
Web links
- Colmar Grünhagen : Johann Moritz von Strachwitz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 479 f.
- Entry on Johann Moritz von Strachwitz on catholic-hierarchy.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joseph Jungnitz : The Breslau Germanicists . Breslau 1906, GP Aderholz 'Buchh., P. 321 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strachwitz, Johann Moritz von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Catholic theologian, vicar apostolic and auxiliary bishop in Breslau |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1721 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freyhan |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1781 |
| Place of death | Wroclaw |