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He dedicated his reign as Prince Bishop of Passau to the reconstruction of the cathedral and the repair of the damage caused by the Thirty Years' War. In addition, a serious quarrel arose between him and the Passau
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had been partially destroyed by the flames , advocated building a modern baroque cathedral. To do this, he got the
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from Prague, who was commissioned to build a baroque cathedral, integrating the remains of the Gothic cathedral.
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and thus become the new prince-bishop. The episcopal consecration followed on 20 April.
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Passauer. Biographisches Lexikon zu Passaus Stadtgeschichte.
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Residenzgalerie, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-901443-32-9, pp. 39–42.
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Wenzeslaus of Thun und
Hohenstein was ordained a priest in 1655.
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Neue-Presse-Verlags-GmbH, Passau 1995, ISBN 3-924484-98-8.
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