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Ernest of Bavaria

ERNESTO DI BAVIERA

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Also known as: German: Ernst von Bayern; French: Ernest de Bavière; Latin: Ernestus Bavarus

ERNEST OF BAVARIA. - Archbishop and prince-elector of Cologne, b. in Munich on 17 Dec. 1554, d. at Arnsberg (Westphalia) on 17 Feb. 1612. When he was barely twelve years old Pius V granted him the bishopric of Freising (1566), to which were later added those of Hildesheim (1573) and Liège (1581), until upon the apostasy of Gebhard Truchsess of Waldburg (1583) he was elected unanimously bishop of Cologne. He had received priestly ordination in 1577. Although his life was not entirely upright, he worked zealously for the application of the Tridentine reform in the Rhenish region and in Westphalia, supported by the Jesuits, for whom he had founded colleges.

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BIBL.: P. Weiler, Die kirchliche Reform in Erzbistum Köln, 1536-1615, Cologne 1931; Pastor, IX-XIII, passim; Eshel, III, pp. 172, 198, 209, 222.

Antonio Cistellini

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V (1950), col. 511.

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Cistellini, Antonio. “Ernesto di Baviera.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, col. 511. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/ernesto-di-baviera.

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Cistellini, Antonio. “Ernesto di Baviera.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 511. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ernesto-di-baviera.

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  author    = {Cistellini, Antonio},
  title     = {Ernesto di Baviera},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {V},
  pages     = {511},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ernesto-di-baviera}
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