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Christopher Migazzi

His Eminence
Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi
Cardinal, Prince Archbishop of Vienna
Cristoforo Antonio Migazzi.jpg
Church Roman Catholic
Archdiocese Vienna
Installed 1757
Term ended 14 April 1803
Predecessor Johann Joseph Graf von Trautson
Successor Sigismund Anton Graf von Hohenwart
Other posts Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Orders
Ordination 7 April 1738
Consecration 10 October 1751
Created Cardinal 23 November 1761
by Clement XIII
Rank Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born (1714-10-30)October 30, 1714
Trento Italy
Died April 14, 1803(1803-04-14) (aged 88)
Vienna Austria
Buried St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna
Coat of arms Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi's coat of arms

Count Christoph Cardinal Anton Migazzi (fully German: Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, Graf zu Wall und Sonnenthurm, Italian: Cristoforo Bartolomeo Antonio Migazzi, conte di Waal e Sonnenthurn, Hungarian: Migazzi Kristóf Antal, October 14, 1714, Trento – April 14, 1803, Vienna) was Prince Archbishop of Vienna.

He was born in 1714, in the county of Tyrol. At nine years of age he entered the school for pages at the residence of Prince Bishop Lamberg at Passau, who later proposed him for admittance to the Collegium Germanicum in Rome. At the age of twenty-two he returned to the Tyrol and devoted himself to the study of civil and canon law.

Cardinal Lamberg took him as conclavist to the conclave of 1740, whence Benedict XIV came forth pope, and to him Cardinal Lamberg earnestly recommended his favourite Migazzi. The latter remained at Rome "in order to quench my thirst for the best science at its very source". By this he meant philosophy as proved by his words spoken about this time: "Without a knowledge of philosophy wit is merely a light fragrance which is soon lost, and erudition a rude formless mass without life or movement, which rolls onward unable to leave any mark of its passage, consuming everything without itself deriving any benefit therefrom." In 1745 he was appointed auditor of the Rota for the German nation.

Owing to the special friendship of Benedict XIV, he was able to conclude several difficult transactions to the entire satisfaction of the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa, who in return appointed him in 1751 coadjutor to the aged Archbishop of Mechlin. Thereupon consecrated bishop, he was soon removed to Madrid as ambassador in Spain. A treaty which he concluded pleased the empress so much that she appointed him coadjutor of Count Bishop Althan of Waitzen (1756); but as Althan died before his arrival, and six months later Prince Archbishop Trantson also died in Vienna, the empress named Migazzi his successor.


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