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He was elected unanimously as Prince-Bishop of Würzburg on 18 September 1719. He was an active but unconventional prince. He issued a wave of decrees and left a particular imprint on the town of Würzburg. Afraid of war, he continued construction of the new town defences and of a border fortress at
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to Würzburg as court librarian. However, his at times erratic style of governing and his gruff personal manners antagonized some of his people, including the cathedral chapter. When he had a heart attack in 1724, dying at Löffelstelzen near
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at Würzburg Cathedral. Both of these were only finished under the rule of his brother, Friedrich Karl. Johann Philipp Franz also issued a planning edict that organized construction in Würzburg (1722). He also supported the
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on 18 August 1724, some in his family assumed he had been poisoned. When the cathedral chapter of Würzburg elected a new bishop in 1724, they rejected Friedrich Karl, due to the unpopularity of his late brother.
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was elected Bishop of Würzburg instead, and only upon the latter's death in 1729, Friedrich Karl succeeded him as Prince-Bishop of Bamberg.
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at Würzburg (1704) and Mainz (1714), he had already served his uncle in several diplomatic missions and had been his local representative at
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As the oldest son, Johann Philipp Franz was slated for an ecclesiastical career from an early age. He was educated at the
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from 1719 to 1724. His principal claim to fame is his commissioning of the
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irrespective of the financial resources of the local population.
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in 1682. He then studied, alongside his younger brother
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