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Karl Joseph, Baron of Riccabona

Italian clergyman and bishop (1761–1839)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ1731840 ↗
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Karl Joseph, Baron of Riccabona (born 1761 in Cavalese) was an Italian clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Passau. He was ordained in 1783. He was appointed bishop in 1826. He died in 1839.

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“Karl Joseph, Baron of Riccabona” enters the record as italian clergyman and bishop (1761–1839). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Karl, Joseph and Baron can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1761, 1783, 1826, 1839—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1761-07-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Karl, Joseph and Baron.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1731840. VIAF identifies the subject as 10653809. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1761, 1783, 1826 and 1839.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karl Joseph, Baron of Riccabona” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.