Josef Ondřej Lindauer (29 November 1784, Plzeň – 5 June 1850,

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) was a Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop, who from 1845 to 1850 served as the third

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Life

He was ordained priest on 15 August 1807 in

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and was nominated bishop by

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on 22 September 1845, with confirmation from

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on 25 November, consecration on 18 January the following year in the Veitsdom in Prague and enthronement on 2 February.

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*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 {{CzechRepublic-RC-bishop-stub