
Josef Ondřej Lindauer (29 November 1784,
Plzeň – 5 June 1850,
České Budějovice
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) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop, who from 1845 to 1850 served as the third
bishop of České Budějovice
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Life
He was ordained priest on 15 August 1807 in
Prague
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and was nominated bishop by
Ferdinand I of Austria
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on 22 September 1845, with confirmation from
Pope Gregory XVI
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on 25 November, consecration on 18 January the following year in the Veitsdom in Prague and enthronement on 2 February.
References
Sources
*http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/blinda.html
*http://www.bcb.cz/Dieceze/Dieceze/Biskupove
1784 births
1850 deaths
People from Plzeň
Bishops of České Budějovice
19th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Austria-Hungary
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