Henry of Kiev

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Heinrich († 1350 ) was the first Roman Catholic bishop of Kiev . He probably never held that office.

Life

Its origin is unknown. Heinrich was a lecturer in the Dominican monastery in Pasewalk in Western Pomerania. In 1321 he was appointed the first Catholic bishop for Kiev, by Bishop Stephan II of Lebus on behalf of the Pope. Shortly before, Grand Duke Gediminas of Lithuania had conquered the area. Heinrich had the appointment confirmed by the Pope in Avignon at the end of the same year . He probably never entered his diocese as the area remained Orthodox.

In 1322 he wrote a spiritual treatise in Bamberg and in 1325 he was given a farm in Königsmark in the Altmark to establish a spiritual foundation by Margrave Ludwig von Brandenburg .

He is said to have died in 1350.

literature

  • E. Geiss: Heinrich, Bishop of Kiev and the pilgrimage to St. Leonhard . In: Upper Bavarian Archive for Fatherland History ( Obb. Arch. ) 21. 1859. pp. 73–96.
  • Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück : History of the former diocese of Lebus and the country of this taking. Volume 1. Berlin 1829. 440f. with notes
personal data
SURNAME Henry of Kiev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first Roman Catholic bishop of Kiev
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1350