Bernhard of Prambach
Life
In 1279, Bernhard was already parish priest of Vienna and Canon of Passau, when he was appointed judge by Pope Nicholas III in a lawsuit between the abbot of Lilienfeld and the Provost of S. Pölten.[3]
Bernhard was elected bishop in May 1285,[4] and held a Synod in Ilzstadt in 1288.[5] In the first week of July 1288, he consecrated the new abbot of the monastery of Osterhofen, Ulrich von Holzheim; previous to that, the monastery of canons regular had been governed by provosts.[6]
He also invited several diocesan controversies among them 1293 (according to which the clergy had to wear simple costumes), in March 1294 in St. Pölten (the plundering and firefights were debated), and again in Passau (1302) on whether St. Gotthard was compulsory for the whole bishopric.
From the year 1293 Bernhard paid special attention to the
In May 1298 the Passau citizenship rose to an insurrection, the object of which was to press for Passau to a
Bishop Bernhard died on 27 July 1313.[7]
The conversion of the
References
- ^ Herbert Wilhelm Wurster: Das Bistum Passau und seine Geschichte. 4 Bände, Straßburg 1994-2010.
- ^ Liste aller Bischöfe des Bistums Archived 2017-07-30 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Hansiz I, pp. 439-440.
- ^ Eubel I, p. 392.
- ^ August Leidl: Die Bischöfe von Passau 739–1968 in Kurzbiographien. Neue Veröffentlichung des Instituts für Ostbairische Heimatforschung, Nr.38, 2. (Auflage, Passau 1978), p. 29.
- ^ Johann Nepomuk Sittersperger, Geschichte des Klosters Osterhofen-Damenstift, (in German), second edition (Passau: M. Waldbauer 1884), p. 60.
- ^ Eubel I, p. 392.
Sources
- Eubel, Conradus, ed. (1913). Hierarchia catholica (in Latin). Vol. 1 (Tomus I) (second ed.). Münster: Libreria Regensbergiana.. Archived
- Hansiz, Marcus. Germaniae sacræ: Metropolis Lauriacensis cum Episcopatu Pataviensi. (in Latin). Tomus I (1727). Augusta Vindelicorum (Augsburg): Happach & Schlüter.