!!!Hohenwart, Sigmund Anton Graf von

b. Kolovec, Slovenia (then Gerlachstein), May 2, 1730, 
d. Vienna, June 30, 1820, Archbishop, 1746-1773 Jesuit, in 1777 in 
Florence as tutor to the children of Grand Duke Peter Leopold of 
Tuscany (Franz II, Archduke Karl). In 1791 Bishop of Trieste, 1794 of 
St. Poelten, 1803 Prince-Archbishop of Vienna. Initiated the gradual 
abolition of state churches and promoted C. M.  Hofbauer.

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