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Czech Roman Catholic archbishop
Alois Josef Krakovsky z Kolovrat
Alois Josef hrab? Krakovsky z Kolovrat
or
Krakowsky z Kolowrat
(
German
:
Alois Josef Krakovsky von Kolowrat
) (21 January 1759 ? 28 March 1833) was the
Roman Catholic
archbishop
of Prague from 1831 to 1833.
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Krakowsky was born in
Prague
in 1759. He was a nobleman, member of the
Kolowrat-Krakowsky
family. He was
ordained
a
priest
on his twenty-second birthday, 21 January 1781. In 1800, he was appointed the
auxiliary bishop
of
Olomouc
in
Moravia
, as well as
titular bishop
of
Sarepta
. It was fifteen years before he was appointed bishop of
Hradec Kralove
. He remained in this capacity until 28 February 1831 when he was appointed archbishop of Prague. Exactly two years and a month later, he died at the age of 74.
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