Karl-August Graf von Reisach (7 July 1800, in
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, Bavaria22 December 1869, in the
Redemptorist
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of
Contamine, France) was a German Catholic theologian and
Cardinal.
Education
On the completion of his secular studies in
Neuburg an der Donau
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The municipality has 16 divisions:
* Altmannstetten
* Bergen, Neu ...
, he studied philosophy at
Munich
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(1816), and
jurisprudence
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at
Heidelberg
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,
Göttingen
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General information
The ori ...
, and
Landshut, securing (1821) the Degree of ''
Doctor Juris Utriusque''. Devoting himself a little later to the study of theology, he received
minor orders
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at
Innsbruck in 1824, was
ordained
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in 1828 after philosophical and theological studies in the
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, and in the following year graduated
Doctor of Theology.
Service in Rome
Pope Pius VII appointed him rector of studies at the
Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith
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, an office which brought him into close relations with its prefect,
Cardinal-Priest
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Bartolomeo Cappellari, who later became
Pope Gregory XVI
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.
Urged to devote special attention to the affairs of the Catholic Church in Germany, he attacked the current anti-ecclesiastical views and tendencies, especially with regard to mixed marriages, in his work ''Was haben wir von den Reformatoren und Stimmführen des katholischen Deutschland unserer Tage zu halten?'', which appeared at
Mainz
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in 1835 under the pseudonym ''Athanasius Sincerus Philalethes''.
Return to Germany
In 1836 he became
Bishop of Eichstätt
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(Bavaria) and, by the foundation of the boys' seminary (1838) and the erection of the lyceum (1843), rendered the greatest services to the ecclesiastical life of the diocese. As delegate of the pope and the Kings of Prussia and Bavaria, he mediated in the Prussian ecclesiastical dispute, and the rapid settlement of the ''Cologne muddle'' (Kölner Wirren - see
Clemens August von Droste-Vischering
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) was due primarily to him.
Vatican service
In recognition of his services, he was named
Coadjutor in 1841, and
Archbishop of Munich-Freising in 1847 . His zeal on behalf of the Church having rendered him unpleasing to the Government, he was, at the request of King
Maximilian II of Bavaria
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, summoned to Rome by
Pope Pius IX as
Cardinal-Priest
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, with the title of St. Anastasia.
[''Allgem. deutsche Biogr.'', XXVIII (Leipzig, 1889), 114]
He conducted the
concordat
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negotiations with Württemberg and Baden and took a prominent part in the preparations for the council.
Reisach was also appointed to the following positions:
1867
*President of the Congregation of Ecclesiastico-political Affairs
*
Camerlengo of the Sacred College of Cardinals
1868
*
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
1869
*First legate of the council
*Consultor of the
Congregation for the Index
*Responsible for the publication of the ecclesiastical canons of the Eastern Churches,
*Consultor to
Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs
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*Consultor to the
Examination of Bishops
*Member of the
Congregation of the Propaganda
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and the
Congregation of Sacred Rites
*
Minister of Education for the Papal States
References
External links
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1800 births
1869 deaths
19th-century German cardinals
Cardinals created by Pope Pius IX
Cardinal-bishops of Sabina
Roman Catholic archbishops of Munich and Freising
Members of the Bavarian Reichsrat
Burials at Munich Frauenkirche
19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Bavaria
German Roman Catholic archbishops