Carentinus

Carentinus was the fourth traditional bishop of Cologne .

Nothing has been passed on about the more precise dates of life, such as date of birth and date of death. Carentinus was sung in 565/566 by Venantius Fortunatus as the renovator of his church. The report of Venantius Fortunatus on the building activity of Bishop Carentinus was interpreted for a long time as if he had either built galleries in an existing church or built a new gallery church to absorb the growing influx, and was therefore probably due to the Merovingian expansion of the cathedral to acquire. However, Becht-Jördens argues for St. Gereon and interprets the verses of Venantius in Carmen III 14 as a reference to a dome mosaic with the holy and heavenly hosts who, united in a community with the believers, praise God.

literature

• Gereon Becht-Jördens: Venantius Fortunatus and the renovation of the Church of St. Gereon in Cologne by Bishop Carentinus . In: Kölner Jahrbuch 43, 2010, pp. 57–69, ISBN 978-3-7861-2628-7 .
• Sebastian Ristow :  Carentinus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 290-292.

predecessor	Office	successor
Severin (direct predecessor not known)	Bishop of Cologne 565-567	Everigisil