• Valentin Wiery (12 February 1813 – 29 December 1880) was an Austrian Catholic Bishop. Wiery was born in St Marein in Wolfsberg, and was educated locally...
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    Gurk; a power Tarnóczy exercised when he consecrated Prince-Bishop Valentin Wiery in 1858. Pope Pius IX elevated Tarnóczy to the rank of Cardinal the...
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    (1827 - 1840) Franz Anton Gindl (1841) Adalbert Lidmansky (1842 - 1858) Valentin Wiery (1858 - 1880) Peter Funder (1881 - 1886) Josef Kahn (1887 - 1910) Balthasar...
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    capital of Carinthia, Klagenfurt. A prominent modern prince-bishop was Valentin Wiery (1858–1880). According to the census of 1906, the Catholic population...
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