Melchior Otto Voit von Salzburg (1603–1653) was the Prince-Bishop of Bamberg from 1642 to 1653.

Biography

Melchior Otto von Voit von Salzburg was born in Eichenhausen, which is today part of Wülfershausen, on 19 June 1603.Profile on catholic-hierarchy.org
/ref> He served as a ''Landrichter'' (judge) in

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and later as

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. Article on German Wikipedia He was appointed Prince-Bishop of Bamberg on 25 August 1642, with Pope Urban VIII confirming his appointment on 5 May 1643. He was never consecrated as a

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, and died with the clerical rank of

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. As bishop-elect, he founded the ''Ottoniana Academia'' (named after his

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, Otto of Bamberg), which later became the University of Bamberg. He died on 4 January 1653.

References

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