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Maribor Maribor ( , , , ; also known by other #Name, historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Styria (Slovenia), Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, th ...

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), unlike the majority of the bishops in the

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. They only exercised pastoral authority over their diocese like other ordinary bishops and for that reason, they did not have seat and vote in the Imperial Diet.

History

The original seat of the bishopric lay in the eastern part of Carinthia in the valley of the Lavant River. It was here, in the parish of Sankt Andrä, that Archbishop Eberhard II of Salzburg had established, on 20 August 1212, with the consent of

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and

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Frederick II, a collegiate chapter, the regular canons of which followed the

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; its members were chosen from the cathedral chapter of Salzburg. On account of the great remoteness and the difficulty of travelling, the Salzburg Archbishop, about the year 1223, asked

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to allow him to found a bishopric at Sankt Andrä. After the pope had had the archbishop's request examined by commissioners, and had given his consent, Eberhard drew up the deed of foundation, on 10 May 1228, wherein he secured the possession of the episcopal chair for himself and his successors in perpetuity. He named as first suffragan bishop his court chaplain Ulrich (died 1257), who had formerly been priest of

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, in the

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.

In the deed of foundation of the new bishopric, no exact boundaries were defined. In a deed of Archbishop Frederick II of Salzburg of 1280, seventeen parishes, situated partly in Carinthia and partly in

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, were described as belonging to Lavant; the extent of the diocese was rather small, but the bishops also attended to the office of

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(diocesan deputy) of the Archbishops of Salzburg for some scattered districts; they also frequently attended to the office of

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(bishop's feudal deputy in secular affairs) at

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. The tenth bishop, Dietrich von Wolfsau (1318–32), is mentioned in deeds as the first (honorific) prince-bishop; he was also secretary of the

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, and was present at the Battle of Mühldorf in 1322. Since the twenty-second bishop, Theobald Schweinbeck (1446–63), the bishops have borne without intermission the title of ''Fürst'' (prince). The following prominent bishops deserve special mention: the humanist Johann I von Rott (1468–82), died as Prince-Bishop of Breslau; Georg II Agrikola (1570–84), who after 1572 was also at the same time Bishop of Seckau; Georg III Stobäus von Palmburg (1584–1618), a worthy promotor of the

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; Maximilian Gandolph Freiherr von Kienburg (1654–65), did much towards increasing the financial resources of the diocese. By the new regulations under Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, several territories were added to the Diocese of Lavant. Prince-Archbishop Michael Brigido of Laibach in 1788 ceded a number of parishes in the southern part of what is now the Diocese of Lavant the

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; and the district of Völkermarkt, which was afterwards again detached, was added to the bishopric at that time. The extent of the diocese was changed by the circumscription of 1 June 1859. The valley of the Lavant and the district of Völkermarkt in Carinthia fell to the

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; in consequence of which the District of Marburg was transferred from Seckau to Lavant; since then the diocese comprises the whole of southern Styria. By the decree of the Congregation of the Consistory of 20 May 1857, the see of the bishop was removed from St. Andrä to Marburg; the parish church of St. John the Baptist in that place being elevated into a cathedral, and the title "of Lavant" being preserved. On 4 September 1859, Bishop Anton Martin Slomšek (1846–62) made his solemn entry into Marburg. His successors, Jakob Maximilian Stepischnegg (1862–89), and Michael Napotnik (since 1889) have shown great zeal for the promotion of the spiritual life by introducing religious orders and founding educational and charitable institutions and clubs. But the most beneficial work done for the religious life of the diocese was that of the diocesan synods, held by Stepischnegg (1883), and by Napotnik, who followed his example (1896, 1900, 1903, and 1906). The old cathedral chapter, which was composed of the canons of the Augustinian order, was dissolved in 1808, and its property was assigned to the "Religionsfond" founded by Joseph II; in 1825 a new cathedral chapter was provisionally erected, and definitively so in 1847. The most prominent ecclesiastical buildings in the diocese are: the cathedral and parish church of St. John the Baptist, at Marburg, which was begun in the middle of the twelfth century as a Romanesque basilica, rebuilt after 1520 in the Gothic style, again restored after the fire in 1601, and once more in 1885; the provostship and parish church of St. Georg, at Pettau, erected in the Gothic style about 1314; the abbey and parish church of St. Daniel, at Cilli, dates from the middle of the sixteenth century; and the shrine of St. Maria der Wüste, in the neighbourhood of Marburg (built 1628), in the baroque style.

Present statistics

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elevated the diocese to an archdiocese with the new suffragan dioceses of

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List of (prince-)bishops

Suffragan bishops of Lavant

* Ulrich von Haus (1228–1257) * Karl von Friesach (1257–1260) * Otto von Mörnstein (1260–1264) * Almerich Grafendorfer (1265–1267) * Herbord (1267–1275) * Gerhard von Ennstal (1275–1285) * Konrad I (1285–1291) * Heinrich von Helfenberg (1291–1299) * Wulfing von Stubenberg (1299–1304) * Werner (1304–1316) * Dietrich Wolfhauer (1317–1332) * Heinrich I Krafft (1332–1338) * Heinrich II von Leis (1338–1342) *

Heinrich III Henry III may refer to: * Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor (1017–1056) * King Henry III of Castile (1379–1406) * King Henry III of England (1207–1272) * King Henry III of France (1551–1589) * King Henry III of Navarre (1553–1610), also King ...

(1342–1356) * Peter Kröll von Reichenhall (1357–1363) * Heinrich IV Krapff (1363–1387) * Ortolf von Offenstetten (1387–1391) * Augustin (1389–1391) * Nikolaus von Unhorst (1391–1397) * Konrad II Torer von Törlein (1397–1408) *

Ulrich II Ulrich II may refer to: * Ulrich II. (St. Gallen) († 1076) Abbot of St. Gall * Ulrich II, Duke of Carinthia (c. 1176 – 1202) * Ulrich II, Count of Württemberg (c. 1254 – 1279) * Ulrich II von Graben (before 1300 – about 1361) * Ulrich II, ...

(1408–1411) * Wolfhard von Ehrenfels (1411–1421) * Friedrich Deys (1421–1423) * Lorenz von Lichtenberg (1424–1432) * Hermann von Gnas (1433–1436) * Lorenz von Lichtenberg (1436–1446)

Suffragan prince-bishops of Lavant

* Theobald Schweinpeck (1446–1463) * Rudolf von Rüdesheim (1463–1468) * Johann I von Roth (1468–1483) * Georg I (1483–1486) * Erhard Paumgartner (1487–1508) * Leonhard Peurl (1508–1536) * Philipp I Renner (1536–1555) * Martin Herkules Rettinger von Wiespach (1556–1570) * Georg II Agricola (1570–1584) * Georg III Stobäus von Palmburg (1584–1618) * Leonhard II von Götz (1619–1640) * Albert von Priamis (1640.12.29 – death 1654.09.08) * Max Gandolf von Kuenburg (1654.12.08 – 1665.02.07), later Bishop of

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(Austria) (1665.02.07 – 1668.07.30), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Austria) ( 668.07.301668.11.12 – 1687.05.03) and

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(Bavaria, Germany) ( 673.03.111673.09.25 – death 1689.03.16) * Franz I Kaspar Freiherr von Stadion (1673.10.21 – death 1704.02.13) * Johann II Sigmund (1704.02.22 – 1708.04.01), later Bishop of

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(1708.04.01 – death 1711.11.18) * Philipp II (1708.04.11 – death 1718.02.14) *

Leopold Anton von Firmian Leopold Anton Eleutherius Freiherr von Firmian (11 March 1679 – 22 October 1744) was Bishop of Lavant 1718–24, Bishop of Seckau 1724–27 and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1727 until his death. Early life He was born in Munich, on his f ...

(1718.03.11 – 1724.01.17), later Bishop of

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(Austria) (1724.01.17 – 1727.12.22), Metropolitan Archbishop of

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(Austria) ( 727.10.041727.12.22 – death 1744.10.22) * Joseph I Oswald von Attems (1724.02.20 – death 1744.05.04) * Virgilius Augustin Maria von Firmian (1744.05.26 – retired 1753.07.15), died 1788 * Johann (Baptist) III von Thun-Valsassina, Reichsgraf von

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(1754.02.04 – death 1762.06.03) * Joseph II Franz Anton von Auersperg (1763.05.08 – 1764.01.04), later Bishop of Gurk (Austria) ( 772.10.181773.01.31 – 1783.05.19), Bishop of

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(1786.06.15 – death 1797.03.01) * Vinzenz Joseph von Schrattenbach (1777.05.31 – resigned? 1790.01.29 ''see below'') * Gandolf Ernst Graf von Kuenberg (1790.02.20 – death 1793.12.12) * Vinzenz Joseph von Schrattenbach (''see above'' 1795.06.26 – 1800.08.11), later Bishop of

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(1797.07.24 – 1800.11.23) as Auxiliary Bishop of

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(Germany) (1797.07.24 – 1800.11.23); later Metropolitan Archbishop of

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Suffragan bishops of (Lavant-)Maribor

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) (1911.02.06 – 1919.12.15), Bishop of

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(Italy) (1911.02.06 – 1919.12.15),

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of Themiscyra (1919.12.15 – 1923.06.06) * Ivan Jožef Tomažič, Bishop of Lavant (1933.06.27 – death 1949.02.27), succeeded as previous Auxiliary Bishop of Lavant (1928.06.08 – 1933.06.27) and Titular Bishop of

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(1928.06.08 – 1933.06.27) * Maksimilijan Držečnik, Bishop of Lavant (1960.06.15 – 1962.03.05), previously Titular Bishop of Abrittum (1946.09.15 – 1960.06.15) as Auxiliary Bishop of Lavant (1946.09.15 – 1960.06.15) and

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of Lavant (1949 – 1960.06.15); from 1962 Bishop of Maribor (Slovenia) (1962.03.05 – death 1978.05.13) ;'' from 1962.03.05: United with (as title of)

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) ;''Suffragan Bishops of Maribor and Bishops of Lavant'' :BIOs to ELABORATE *

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, Archbishop of Maribor (2013–)

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