Heinrich Woggersin

Heinrich Woggersin's seal as titular bishop of Sebaste

Heinrich Woggersin OESA , also: Wuggersin, Wongersheim, Vongersch, Wagersin (effective between 1420 and 1454) was an Augustinian hermit and from 1436 titular bishop of Sebaste in Cilicia and auxiliary bishop in Cammin , later in Schwerin .

Life

Heinrich Woggersin was a conventual in the Augustinian hermit monastery in Anklam around 1420 . At that time he was part of the Observance of Matteus de Introduco in Rome. The order general Augustine allowed him to return to his homeland for only three weeks, after which he should come back to Rome. On December 14, 1435, General Gerhard von Rimini allowed him to accept the episcopal dignity.

Batzwitz church consecrated by Woggersin

On May 25, 1436 he was appointed titular bishop of Sebaste in Cilicia . At the same time, the Electus was commissioned to act as vicarius in pontificalibus (auxiliary bishop) of Bishop Siegfried II. Bock von Cammin. Documentary evidence shows that he was in office there until 1440. So he consecrated the church and the altar in the church in Batzwitz in the later district of Greifenberg , today Gryfice . When the altar was demolished, the parchment certificate of consecration was found with a well-preserved round seal attached.

On September 15, 1442, Bishop Heinrich granted as vicarius in pontificalibus of Bishop Hermann III. von Schwerin 40 days indulgence in favor of the von Suckow chapel . Also on May 31, 1444 he was active in the diocese of Schwerin. On this day, Nicolaus Böddeker was ordained bishop, and Bishop Heinrich von Sebaste was one of the consecrators with Bishops Konrad von Havelberg and Johannes II Prohl von Ratzeburg . Bishop Nicolaus kept his predecessor's auxiliary bishop. Thus, with explicit emphasis on his position as vicarius in pontificalibus of his diocesan bishop Nicolaus on June 25, 1444 in Doberan , he granted 40 days indulgence to all those who had consecrated images of St. Would visit Abbots Benedict and Bernhard and pray before them.

Documentary testimony was on March 3, 1454, by Bishop Nicolaus Böddeker in Stralsund, that Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich granted minor orders to a cleric of the Schwerin diocese who was not known by name.

On September 15, 1454 the gracious her unde biscop the Zwerin Diocesan Bishop Nicolaus and his wygelbiscop her Hinrik Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich attended a festive liturgical dressing ceremony for the Froken Elyzabeth, who was not yet a nun Elisabeth, a daughter of Duke Heinrich IV of Mecklenburg, in the Poor Clare monastery Ribnitz . The abbots of Dargun and Doberan monasteries were also present . The then 5-year-old Elisabeth (1449–1506) later became abbess in the Ribnitz Poor Clare Monastery.

This ends the previously known episcopal official acts of Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich von Sebaste. When and where he died and where his grave is located is not known.

seal

Bishop Heinrich had a round seal 38 mm in diameter. In the middle of the Gothic niche is the Mother of God with the baby Jesus under a canopy.

The inscription reads: S 'FRATRIS HINRICI EPI SEBASENSIS

On a document dated March 3, 1454, a parabolic seal made of green wax was attached to a sealing tape cut from a membrane. The representation on it is the coronation of Mary and below a praying monk.

The inscription reads: FRATIS + HINRICI + EPI + SE ... SIS.

literature

• Adolf Hofmeister : On the history of the Augustinian monastery in Anklam and the city of Anklam . In: Monthly sheets of the Society for Pomeranian History . No. 39, Stettin 1925, pp. 22-23. ( online , PDF 10.3 MB)
• Konrad Eubel : Hierarchia catholica medii aevi . Volume II. 1914, Monasterii (Unchanged reprint Patavii / Italy 1960).
• Hellmuth Heyden: Church history of Pomerania , I / II. Cologne-Braunsfeld 1957
• Josef Traeger : Auxiliary Bishops. In: The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin. St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1984, pp. 204-206.
• Josef Traeger: Woggersin, Heinrich (OESA) († 1454 at the earliest). 1436 Ep. Tit. Sebastiensis. Since 1436 auxiliary bishop in Kammin. 1442-1454 auxiliary bishop in Schwerin. In: Brodkorb, Clemens [arr.]. Gatz, Erwin [Ed.]: The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448 to 1648. A biographical lexicon. Volume 2, Berlin 1996, p. 762

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ursula Creutz: Augustinian Hermit Monastery Anklam. In: Bibliography of the former monasteries and monasteries in the area of ​​the Diocese of Berlin, the episcopal office of Schwerin and adjacent areas . St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1988, pp. 18-20.
2. ^ Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia catholica medii aevi. II. P. 232.
3. ^ Baltic Studies NF XVIII (1914) Kirchweih Batzwitz with a picture of the certificate.
4. ↑ State Main Archive Schwerin LHAS, Regesten II. Clandrian, No. 282b.
5. ^ Collection of documents relating to Bishop Nicolaus Böddeker. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher , Volume 24 (1859) pp. 231–232.
6. ^ Collection of documents relating to Bishop Nicolaus Böddeker . In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher . Volume 24 (1859) pp. 231-232.