Balthasar Schitter

Balthasar Schitter (2 January 1793 – 19 October 1868) was an Austrian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of Salzburg from 1850 to his death in 1868.

In 1825, Schitter worked as a cooperator in the parish of St. Andrea in Salzburg.

The next year he became a parish priest in Westendorf, Tyrol which served as a centre of the Manharter sect.

While there, Schitter contributed significantly to the reversion of many followers of this sect back to Catholicism.

He was consecrated in the Salzburg Cathedral on 28 July, with Cardinal Friedrich Prince zu Schwarzenberg, the archbishop of Prague as his principal consecrator and Bishop Anton Martin Slomšek of Lavant and Bishop Georg von Oettl of Eichstätt as co-consecrators.