Dietrich Huls

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Dietrich Huls OFM († after 1526) was titular bishop of Sebaste in Cilicia and auxiliary bishop in Bremen from 1507, and from 1516 also auxiliary bishop in Schwerin .

Life

On July 9, 1507, the Stade- born Franciscan Dietrich Huls, who belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province ( Saxonia ), was appointed by Pope Julius II as the new titular bishop of Sebaste in Cilicia and auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Bremen . From 1508 he also held the office of Vicar General in Bremen .

On the occasion of the confirmation of the postulation of the minor Duke Magnus as Bishop of Schwerin by the Roman Curia , the appointment of an auxiliary bishop was ordered. Auxiliary Bishop Dietrich, who by our blessed vorfaren tyden had been present at the jar officio pontificali, was given a redelick from and taught mahn, ock tho then sent to office, as the recommending Cristoph , administrator of the Archdiocese of Bremen, expressly remarked, was provided for this office and employed. In the text of this contract, Bützow or Rostock were intended as places of residence.

The Dominicans - Prior Cornelius Sneek asked the Bishop Dietrich, the on September 19, 1521 Deacon Otto Alerdes priest and subdeacon to ordain a deacon Johann Spoyler. Dedication day was September 21st. On September 8, 1522, the feast of the birth of the Virgin Mary , another official act was reported from the Ribnitz Clare monastery . There was by the wygelbiscop tho Swerin broder Dideryck Huls, the ordens Francisci ock eyn broder, especially Stade ghebaren the Father Herzog in the presence of Henry the investiture of his alderleveste dochter Ursula place, which was in the monastery since 1514th Her brother Magnus, eyn ghkaren biscop tho Zwerin was also named among the guests .

Also for the quarter week of Lent 1523 the granting of orders by the appointed auxiliary bishop was attested. On February 23, 1523, Friedrich Spangenberg, prior of the Greifswald Dominican Convent, asked for the ordination of the diaconate to be given to the brother Joachim Braeckroghen, subdeacon, together with the rest of the people ... The consecration day was February 28, 1523.

On October 10, 1523, when Lutheranism also made itself felt in the university city of Rostock and Pope Hadrian VI. warned the Schwerin diocese, reverendus pater ac dominus Theodoricus episcopus Sebastensis et diocesis Zwerinensis in pontificalibus vicarius ("the venerable Father and Mr. Theoderich, Bishop of Sebaste and episcopal vicar of the Diocese of Schwerin") was postulated as Rector of the University of Rostock and on October 26th as such published after he himself had been enrolled a little earlier at the alma mater, which he now had to head. As a scholar, Bishop Dietrich is the rector of the university and an honorary doctorate from 1523 to 1524 .

Even in 1527, Bishop Dietrich had given the Dominican prior Cornelius von Sneek in Greifswald the higher orders. He last heard of his activity as Schwerin auxiliary bishop in 1528, when Duke Heinrich V the Peaceful froych his daughter Sophia with Duke Ernst von Lüneburg after Christian wanheyt dorch the wygelbiscop tho Zwerin broder Diderick Huls ordinis sunte Francisci ...

How long Bishop Dietrich was able to work as a Catholic bishop in the diocese of Schwerin is not known. It is also unknown whether he spent his old age in the Schwerin diocese or elsewhere, as well as the date and place of his death and burial.

seal

In the seal of Bishop Dietrich Huls stands St. John the Evangelist with a chalice, at his feet the coat of arms of Bishop Dietrich.

The inscription reads: THEODORICUS EPISCOPUS SEBASTENSIS SUFFRAGANEUS ECCLESIE ET ​​DIOCESIS ZWERINENSIS ("Theodoric, Bishop of Sebaste, Suffragan of the Church and the Diocese of Schwerin").

literature

  • Dietrich Schröder: Church history of the Protestant Mecklenburg from the years 1518–1742. Rostock 1788.
  • Adolf Hofmeister: The register of the University of Rostock , Volume II, Rostock 1899.
  • Friedrich Techen : Mecklenburg historical sources . I. Schwerin 1909.
  • Axel Vorberg: Contributions to the history of the Dominican order in Mecklenburg , I./II. Leipzig 1913.
  • Konrad Eubel : Hierarchia catholica medii aevi . Volume II, pp. 233, 278, Münster 1914.
  • Josef Traeger : The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin. St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1984.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia catholica medii aevi . II. P. 233.
  2. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present. Werl 1999, p. 233.
  3. ^ Fritz Stein: Duke Magnus of Mecklenburg, Bishop of Schwerin. A champion of the Reformation . (School program of the Gymnasium Fridericanum) Schwerin 1899.
  4. ^ Axel Vorberg: Contributions to the History of the Dominican Order in Mecklenburg , IS 34 No. 58.
  5. ^ Friedrich Techen: Mecklenburgische Geschichtsquellen , IS 129.
  6. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal .
  7. ↑ Elisabeth Schnitzler: The spiritual and religious life of Rostock at the end of the Middle Ages. 1940, p. 100.
  8. ^ Friedrich Techen: Mecklenburgische Geschichtsquellen , IS 159.
personal data
SURNAME Huls, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Titular Bishop of Sebaste in Cilicia, Auxiliary Bishop in Bremen and Schwerin
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century