The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . tof the old religious foundations and monasteries weresuppressed as early as 1784. In all these innovationsthe Bishop of Linz and his chapter aided and sup- 1794. Another permanent service of the bishop wasthe founding of a seminary for priests; for this hebought in 1804 a house out of his own means, andmade the institution heir to all his property. Thethird Bishop of Linz, Sigismund von Honenwart(), had been a cathedral canon of Gurk a
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . tof the old religious foundations and monasteries weresuppressed as early as 1784. In all these innovationsthe Bishop of Linz and his chapter aided and sup- 1794. Another permanent service of the bishop wasthe founding of a seminary for priests; for this hebought in 1804 a house out of his own means, andmade the institution heir to all his property. Thethird Bishop of Linz, Sigismund von Honenwart(), had been a cathedral canon of Gurk andVicar-General of Klagenfurt. He was appointed bythe emperor on 10 .January, 1809, but the appoint-ment did not receive papal approbation until Decem-ber, 1S14, on account of the imprisonment of the bishop took energetic measures against the vision-ary followers of Poschl and Boos, who were thennumerous in Upper Austria. His successor was theBenedictine Gregor Thomas Ziegler (1827-52), for-merly Bishop of Tarnov. Although the Churchthroughout Austria at this date was still dependentto a very great degree on the government in ecclesias-. Franz-Josef Platz and the Old Cathedral ported the government much too willingly. Not onlyin secular matters did the bishop ask for the assistanceof the provincial government at Linz, he also soughtto obtain the approbation of the civil authorities forthe statutes of his chapter, as well as for the episcopaland consistorial seals. Ne\ertheless there could be nodurable peace with the bureaucratic civil authorities,and Herberstein was repeatedly obliged to complainto the emperor of the tutelage in which the Churchwas kept, hut the complaints bore little fruit. The next bishop, Joseph Anton Gall (1788-1807),had been of great service to the Austrian school systemas cathedral xchnlnstirus and chief supervisor of thenormal schools. He was an adherent of Josephinism,and permitted the chancellor of the consistory, GeorgeRechherger, a layman an
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