Karl Kajetan von Gaisruck

Coat of arms of Karl Kajetan Cardinal von Gaisruck

Karl Kajetan Graf von Gaisruck, Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan, lithograph by Franz Eybl , 1853

Karl Kajetan Count von Gaisruck

Cardinal's tomb in Milan Cathedral

Karl Kajetan von Gaisruck ( Italian Carlo Gaetano II. Di Gaisruck ) (born August 7, 1769 in Klagenfurt , Austria, † November 19, 1846 in Milan) was Archbishop of Milan and Cardinal .

Life

He was the son of Johann Jakob Imperial Count von Gaisruck , Governor of Upper Galicia , his mother was Maria Anna Antonia, née. Freiin von Valvasor zu Galleneck (also Antonia dei Valvassori ), a noble Italian . He studied in Salzburg and Passau and was his diaconate on 23 December 1797 in the clergy of the diocese of Passau incardinated . On July 6, 1800, he was ordained a priest in Passau .

On July 20, 1801 he was appointed titular bishop of Derbe and auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Passau. The episcopal ordination donated him on August 23rd of the same year by the Passau bishop Leopold Leonhard von Thun , who had already ordained him a priest . After the secularization of the Principality of Passau in 1803 and his removal from office as Episcopal Vicar , he worked as a priest in Kallham in the Diocese of Linz, where he tried to alleviate the devastating consequences of the Napoleonic Wars .

Under the influence of the Habsburgs , Count Gaisruck became Archbishop of Milan on March 1, 1818. On September 27, 1824 he was by Pope Leo XII. appointed cardinal, from 1829 he was cardinal priest with the titular church of San Marco .

After the death of Pope Gregory XVI. Cardinal von Gaisruck traveled to the conclave in Rome , with the presumed order of the emperor to pronounce the exclusive , a controversial veto, against the Italian Cardinal Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti, who was considered liberal. According to other sources, however, the exclusive should have been Cardinal Pasquale Gizzi . But Cardinal Gaisruck traveled without haste and arrived in Rome too late. Before his arrival, the conclave had already elected Count Mastai-Ferretti as Pope on June 16, 1846, who chose Pius IX. called.

Five months after the conclave, on November 19, 1846, the popular Cardinal von Gaisruck died. He was buried in the Milan Cathedral .

Web links

• Gaisruck, Karl Kajetan. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 19, 2016.
• Entry on Karl Kajetan von Gaisruck on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved August 19, 2016.

predecessor	Office	successor
Giovanni Battista Caprara	Archbishop of Milan 1818–1846	Bartolomeo Carlo Romilli