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German bishop and monarch
Christoph Franz von Buseck
(28 December 1724 - 28 September 1805) was the
Roman Catholic
bishop
of
Bamberg
and the last
Prince-Bishop
of
Bamberg
.
Early life
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Von Buseck was born in
Jagstberg
to Ernst Johann Philipp Hartmann von Buseck and Mary Ann. Almost nothing is known of his early life.
Tenure as Bishop
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On 7 April 1794, von Buseck was elected Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and ordained to the priesthood. His nephew, Georg Karl von Fechenbach, the
Prince-Bishop of Wurzburg
, consecrated him as a bishop on 16 August 1795 and he took office. Von Buseck proved to be a very weak ruler. In 1796, when Bamberg was invaded by the French, von Buseck fled to
Prague
and when the French invaded Prague in 1799, he fled to
Saalfeld
.
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He returned to Bamburg in 1800 and appointed his nephew as his
coadjutor bishop
and successor.
In the course of the
German mediatization
of 1802?1803, which saw the suppression of all the Holy Roman Empire ecclesiastical principalities,
Bavaria
occupied the former prince-bishopric on 29 September 1802 and annexed its territories. However, until his death on 28 September 1805, von Buseck remained bishop of Bamberg, but bereft of any temporal power. He was then succeeded by his nephew. After his nephew's death in 1808, the See remained vacant until 1818,
[2]
by which time Bamberg had been elevated to an
archbishopric
following the Bavarian Concordat of June 1817.
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