David (Speyer)

David († January 29, 761 ) ruled as Bishop of Speyer approx. 743 until January 29, 761. In the official census of Speyer bishops, he ranks as No. 9.

David is already in 7th place in the oldest Speyer bishops list from the Schäftlarn Abbey .

Bishop David von Speyer was also abbot of the Weissenburg monastery and appears with this function in documents there from 744. As Speyer shepherd he participated in the Franconian synod of 747 in Mainz, about which St. Boniface reported to Cuthberth of Canterbury : “We decided at our synod and confessed to preserve the Catholic faith and the unity and submission to the Roman Church to the last breath, to be subject to Saint Peter and his deputy and to obey the commandments of Saint Peter properly in everything we are counted among the sheep entrusted to him. "

At the urgent request of the Mainz clergy and the Frankish princes Karlmann and Pippin , St. Bonifatius finally took his seat in Mainz ; Speyer, Worms and other districts were made subordinate to him by papal bull of November 4, 748 as suffragan dioceses . This has strengthened the connection between the Bishop of Speyer and Bonifatius.

Also during David's reign, Boniface visited St. Pirminius in the Hornbach monastery , shortly before his death on November 3, 753. St. Philip , who was considered a saint during his lifetime, died in Zell in northern Palatinate . The local monastic community flourished under his companion Horoskolf and proselytized throughout the surrounding area. Later the community was connected to the Hornbach monastery founded by St. Pirmin and Philip's grave eventually advanced to become the most important pilgrimage site in the Palatinate.

According to Codex Weißenburg 81 , in Wolfenbüttel, Bishop and Abbot David died on January 29, 761.

literature

• Sigmund Joseph Zimmer : Article Speyer ; in: Wetzer and Welte's Church Lexicon or Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology and its auxiliary sciences , Volume 11; Freiburg: Herder'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1882–1903;
• Jakob Baumann: History of the Bishops of Speyer, " The Pilger ", born in 1906
• Ludwig Stamer : Church history of the Palatinate , Volume 1, Speyer, 1936
• Hans Ammerich : The Diocese of Speyer and its history , Volume 1: From the beginnings to the end of the Salier period (1125) ; Kehl am Rhein 1998; ISBN 3-927095-36-2 . P. 20.

predecessor	Office	successor
Luido	Bishop of Speyer 743–761	Basinus