Alois Josef hrabě Krakovský z Kolovrat or Krakowský z Kolowrat () (21 January 1759 – 28 March 1833) was the
Roman Catholic
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archbishop
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of Prague from 1831 to 1833.
Biography
Krakowsky was born in
Prague
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in 1759. into the
House of Kolowrat-Krakowsky, a branch of the
House of Kolowrat
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, as the son of Count Prokop Kolowrat-Krakowsky (1718-1774) by his second wife, Countess Maria Anna Margaret
Ogilvy
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(1725-1810). He was
ordained
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a
priest
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on his twenty-second birthday, 21 January 1781. In 1800, he was appointed the
auxiliary bishop
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...
of
Olomouc
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Located on the Morava (rive ...
in
Moravia
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, as well as
titular bishop
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of
Sarepta
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. It was fifteen years before he was appointed bishop of
Hradec Králové
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. He remained in this capacity until 28 February 1831 when he was appointed archbishop of Prague. Exactly two years and a month later, he died at the age of 74.
His remains are buried in
St. Vitus Cathedral.
References
External links
Archbishop Alois Jozef Krakowski von Kolowrat profile at Catholic-HierarchyBiographical entry for ''Kolowrat-Krakowsky''in the ''
Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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'' by
Ludwig Schlesinger
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Biography
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1759 births
1833 deaths
18th-century Roman Catholic priests from Bohemia
19th-century Czech people
Roman Catholic archbishops in the Austrian Empire
Habsburg Bohemian nobility
Roman Catholic archbishops of Prague
Kolowrat family
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