Lev Skrbenský z Hříště, german: Leo Skrbenský von Hříště, also spelt ''Skrebensky'' (12 June 1863, Hausdorf (now a part of Bartošovice),

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– 24 December 1938, Dlouhá Loučka,

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) was a prominent

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in the Catholic Church during the early 20th century. Born into a wealthy family, Lev Skrbenský z Hříště was educated at the

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and during the 1880s worked on a

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at the

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. During his stay in Rome he lived in the priest college

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and served there as a chaplain too. After being ordained in 1889, he went into the army of the Austrian Empire and spent the following decade serving as an army chaplain. He left his military duties in 1899, and Emperor

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selected him as

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. Two years later, he was made a

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on 15 April 1901, at the age of thirty-seven. He received the red hat on 9 June 1902. Later that year, Lev (together with other Bohemian and Moravian bishops) was addressed in pope Leo's encyclical Quae Ad Nos. He participated in the 1903 and 1914 conclaves, and in 1916 was transferred to the see of

, to which he was elected by its cathedral chapter at the request of the Habsburg government. He resigned this see in 1920 due to poor health and did not participate in the 1922 conclave. Although his health remained very poor, Skrbenský z Hříště lived until 1938 and was the last cardinal created by Pope Leo XIII to die, outliving

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by more than eight years.

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