Antonín Theodor Colloredo-Waldsee
Antonín Theodor Colloredo-Waldsee was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.Biography
Antonín was born on June 29, 1729 in Vienna as the son of Count Lodovico Colloredo-Waldesee Mels and Princess Eleonore Gonzaga di Vescovato. He obtained his utroque iure at the University of Padua on March 3, 1752.
He was ordained as a priest on August 20, 1758 in Olomouc, and was elected its bishop on October 6, 1777. On December 5, 1777, he was promoted Archbishop of Olomouc. He was consecrated at the Salzburg Cathedral on May 17, 1778 by Hieronymus Joseph Franziskus von Colloredo. In 1790, he participated in the Diet of Frankfurt. He was recommended to the cardinalate at the behest of Emperor Francis I, and was created cardinal on January 17, 1803 by Pope Pius VII. He died on September 12, 1811 in Kroměříž, where he is buried at the cathedral of Saint Moritz.
