Background
Leopold von Sedlnitzky also known as Count Leopold Sedlnitzky Odrowąż Choltitz was born July 29, 1787 in Geppersdorf, Austrian Silesia.
Leopold von Sedlnitzky also known as Count Leopold Sedlnitzky Odrowąż Choltitz was born July 29, 1787 in Geppersdorf, Austrian Silesia.
He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Wrocław but returned home to continue his studies privately in 1807 when Wrocław was affected by the Napoleonic wars.
He came from the Moravian-Silesian noble family of Sedlnitzky Choltitz. He graduated and was ordained in 1811. In 1819 he became a canon in Wrocław and in 1830, with royal support, provost.
In December 1832 he was made a vicar.
The Prussian government chose him to be bishop of Wrocław in 1835, but resigned in October 1840. After abdicating he moved to Berlin where he was made a privy-councillor by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. In his will, he also gave to the Wrocław Evangelical Theological college.
In his youth he was accused of membership of the Johann Michael Sailer Society, and as Prince-Bishop he was neither clear nor firm in his maintenance of the doctrines of the Church including on the question of mixed marriages. As Bishop held a toleration of non-Catholic children"s education.