Franz Karl Joseph Fürst von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
Franz Joseph Xaver Karl Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop and bishop of Augsburg, as well as vicar general of Neuwürttemberg.Life
Descended from the Hohenlohe dynasty, he was the son of Prince Karl Albrecht I. zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and his first wife Sophie Wilhelmine zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort. Educated by Jesuits, he studied in Parma and Strasbourg and was ordained priest in Cologne on 7 April 1787. He later served as dean of Ellwangen Abbey and a canon in Cologne, Vienna and Strasbourg. Under Prince Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony, the last Prince-Bishop of Augsburg, Hohenlohe was appointed as an auxiliary bishop in the Augsburg diocese and titular bishop of Tempe, both on 9 August 1802, shortly before it was secularised. He was consecrated as a bishop of 5 September 1802 by Clemens in the Pfarrkirche in Marktoberdorf, with the assistance of the abbots of St. Mang's Abbey and Irsee Abbey.
When the prince-bishopric was secularised, it initially remained within its existing borders.
