Joseph von Stubenberg

Archbishop Joseph von Stubenberg

Joseph Graf von Stubenberg (born November 8, 1740 in Graz ; † January 29, 1824 in Eichstätt ) was Prince-Bishop of the Eichstätt Monastery from 1791 to 1802 and then bishop of the Eichstätt diocese until 1821 . From 1818 to 1824 he was also the first archbishop of Bamberg .

Joseph Graf von Stubenberg came from the noble family of the Lords and Counts of Stubenberg ; his father, Count Leopold, had 28 children in two marriages. He was ordained a priest in Salzburg in 1762. In 1790 he was elected Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt. His Hochstift Eichstätt was secularized by Bavaria in 1802. When the church districts were reorganized after the secularization in 1818, he was appointed first archbishop of Bamberg and at the same time apostolic administrator of Eichstätt. He initially refused the constitutional oath to be taken according to the Bavarian religious edict of May 26, 1818 and later took it with the addition "that it does not oblige him to anything that is against the teachings and laws of the Catholic Church". In 1821 he received the pallium as archbishop of Bamberg and administrator of the diocese of Eichstätt from the papal nuncio Franz Serra de Cassano . However, he never entered the Archdiocese of Bamberg that had been awarded to him.

literature

Joseph von Stubenberg, Eichstätt thaler 1796

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Stubenberg, Joseph Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 40th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1880, p. 146 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Alois Knöpfler :  Joseph Graf von Stubenberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 705-708.
• Eduard Buckl: Joseph Graf von Stubenberg, the last Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt (1790–1802). In: Heimgarten. Supplement to the Eichstätter Volkszeitung - Eichstätter Kurier. Vol. 21, 1950, No. 2-15; Jg. 24, 1953, No. 31-41, 43-45, 48-51; Vol. 25, 1954, No. 1, 5-9.
• Peter Zürcher: The bishopric elections in the prince-bishopric of Eichstätt from 1636 to 1790. Election stories in the mirror domkapitelscher, dynastic and imperial state and imperial church politics (= series of publications on Bavarian state history. Vol. 155). CH Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-10770-2 (At the same time: Eichstätt, Ingolstadt, University, dissertation, 2004/2005: Bishops' elections and coadjutor efforts in the Eichstätt Monastery from 1636 to 1790. ).
• Bruno Lengenfelder, Archbishop Joseph Graf von Stubenberg (1740–1824), in: Josef Urban (ed.), Archives of the Archdiocese of Bamberg (ed.), The Bamberg Archbishops. Pictures of Life, 1st edition, Archbishopric Archive, Bamberg 1997, ISBN 978-3-00-001920-3 , 2nd edition 2015, ISBN 978-3-7319-0183-9 . available online (2nd edition), pp. 53–74.

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predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Anton III. Baron von Zehmen	Bishop of Eichstaett 1791 - 1824	Peter blows
Georg Karl von Fechenbach	Archbishop of Bamberg 1818 - 1824	Joseph Maria von Fraunberg