Klemens August of Bavaria: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Klemens August of Bavaria (1700-1761) was a member of the Wittelsbach house.

Born in Brussels.

The uncle Joseph Clemens, elector and archbishop of Cologne saw to it, that Klemens August of Bavaria received several appointments in Alt-Oetting, diocese Regensburg and at the Prince-Bishopric Berchtesgaden and he soon received papal confirmation as bishop of Regensburg, later Cologne.

He was Archbishop of Cologne, Prince-Bishop of Münster, Hildesheim, and Osnabrück, and a Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.