Sigmund Carl von Castel-Barco

Sigmund Carl von Castel-Barco (also Sigmund Carl von Castro-Barco ; born January 9, 1661 in Loppio ; † March 3, 1708 ) was Prince-Bishop of Chiemsee from 1697–1708 .

Life

His parents were Franz von Castro-Barco and Claudia Dorothea Countess Lodron . Sigmund Carl was baron of the four vicariates and lord of Cresta. After studying both law in Salzburg, Mantua and Rome, he was part of the Sacra Rota Romana . Since 1678 he had a cathedral canonical in Salzburg and in 1684 he became cathedral capitular in Passau . After he was ordained a priest on March 19, 1687, he was appointed President of the Court Council by Salzburg Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun a year later . He was also the Imperial Privy Councilor .

After the death of the Chiemsee Bishop Sigmund Ignaz von Wolkenstein-Trostburg , Archbishop Thun appointed Sigmund Carl von Castel-Barco as his successor on January 13, 1697. The installation took place on May 5, 1697. A year later he was promoted to the archbishopric of Salzburg's secret council.

For himself and his successors in office, he received the Zellhof in the Archbishopric of Salzburg , which he soon had to do without. On the other hand, he succeeded in releasing the Lower Weiherschlössel, which belonged to the Chiemsee property and had been leased to Salzburg's capitulars since the beginning of the 17th century . The renovation of the Salzburg residence of the Chiemsee bishops, the Chiemseehof , begun by his predecessor , was completed during his tenure. In 1699 he was promoted to President of the Secret Council in Salzburg.

When he wanted to convene a diocesan synod in the Herrenchiemsee monastery in 1699 , he got into a dispute over competence with the Herrenchiemsee provost , who held the office of archdeacon and approved priests for the diocese of Chiemsee, which could only be settled in 1707. With the judgment passed, the rights of the diocesan bishop were recognized via the Herrenchiemsee monastery, but the holding of synods in the monastery church, which was also the bishop's cathedral, was not approved. That is why the diocesan synods were held in the parish church of St. Johann in Tirol , which belongs to the district, until the diocese was dissolved in 1807 .

Another legal dispute arose with the Archbishop of Salzburg when Sigmund Carl von Castel-Barco ordained priests in the Chiemseehof without the consent of the local bishop. The trial before the curia was decided in 1705 in favor of the archbishop. Presumably for this reason, at the request of the Viennese court, with which he was well connected, Castel-Barco was to succeed the ailing Gurk Prince-Bishop Otto de la Bourde , who outlived him by a few months.

literature

• Erwin Naimer: Castel-Barco (Castro-Barco) Sigmund Carl Reichsgraf von (1661–1708) . In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1648−1803 , ISBN 3-428-06763-0 , pp. 59–60

Web links

• Entry about Sigmund Carl von Castel-Barco on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Sigmund Ignaz von Wolkenstein-Trostburg	Bishop of Chiemsee 1697–1708	Johann Sigmund von Kuenburg