Antonín Theodor von Colloredo-Waldsee (also: ''Colloredo-Waldsee-Melz'' or ''Colloredo-Melz und Waldsee'')
(17 July 1729 – 12 November 1811) was a
cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Biography
Antonín was born on 29 June 1729 in Vienna as the son of Count Lodovico Colloredo-Waldesee Mels (1698–1767) and Princess Eleonore Gonzaga di Vescovato (1699–1779). He obtained his ''
utroque iure'' at the
University of Padua
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on 3 March 1752.
He was ordained as a priest on 20 August 1758 in
Olomouc
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and was elected its bishop on 6 October 1777. On 5 December 1777 he was promoted
Archbishop of Olomouc. He was consecrated at the
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on 17 May 1778 by
Hieronymus Joseph Franziskus von Colloredo. In 1790, he participated in the
Diet of Frankfurt. He was recommended to the cardinalate at the behest of
Emperor Francis I, and was created cardinal on 17 January 1803 by
Pope Pius VII.
He died on 12 September 1811 in
Kroměříž
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, where he is buried at the cathedral of Saint Moritz.
References
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1729 births
1811 deaths
Bishops of Olomouc
Clergy from Vienna
Nobility from Vienna
University of Padua alumni
19th-century Austrian cardinals
18th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Holy Roman Empire