 After his election to the House of Lords he obtained a mitigation of the anti-Catholic provisions which characterized the May laws.In 1887, with the approval of the Prussian government, the Pope appointed him prince-bishop of Breslau(Wroclaw), and in 1893 he was made cardinal.As prince bishop he pursued Germanization and censured those priests whom he suspected as resisting these measures, opposed used of Polish in classes and communion and tried secretly to discourage Polish faithful from making pilgrimages to Krakow As He was made Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1893.