Johannes (Tauris)

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Johannes, OP was (titular) bishop of Tauris from 1374 until after 1390 and is attested by auxiliary bishop records in the diocese of Schwerin .

Life

On April 7, 1374 Pope Gregory XI. with reference to the death of Bishop Rostagnus, the Dominican appointed John Bishop of Tauris. The diocese of Tauris was established in 1318, belonged to the six suffragan dioceses of the Archdiocese of Soultanieh ( Soltania ) in Persia, went under after a short period and was then used as a titular diocese .

On April 8, 1390, Bishop Potho von Pothenstein authenticated Episcopus Thaurisiensis in Stralsund in the presence of Johannes . This April 8, 1390 fell on the Friday after Easter. Bishop Johannes had obviously helped out during the previous Holy Week with the many services, the consecration on Holy Saturday and the Easter days themselves. It would be for the diocesan bishop alone in the year of his death (he died before August 11, 1390) on what date the new bishop Rudolf III. , Duke of Mecklenburg, when the postulate was already known, it was probably too much of an effort.

From the existing documents one could infer that Bishop Johannes belonged to the Rostock Dominican monastery of St. John , since the said document concerned a donation to this monastery. John's activity as auxiliary bishop in the Schwerin diocese is also documented in 1390 for the new bishop Rudolf. This is all the more so as in the previous time, due to the difficulties between the diocesan bishop residing in Stralsund and the Electus , Domdekan Junge, who knew how to assert himself for a long time in the Mecklenburg diocese and in his own Stiftsland, somehow the granting of orders and confirmation had to be, which is not always provable given the scant documents for the diocese of Schwerin.

When and where he died and was buried is not known.

literature

  • Konrad Eubel : Hierarchia catholica medii aevi. Volume I. 1913, Monasterii (unchanged reprint: Patavii / Italy 1960).
  • Josef Traeger : Auxiliary Bishops. In: The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin. St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1984, pp. 195–197.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traeger (Lit.), p. 195; Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia catholica medii aevi . I. 1913, p. 475.
  2. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch MUB XIV (1886) No. 8457, MUB XXI (1903) No. 395.
  3. ↑ Ursula Creutz: 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. 426-429.
  4. ↑ MUB XXIII. (1911) No. 12933.
personal data
SURNAME John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES John of Tauris, Ioannes episcopus Thaurisiensis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Titular bishop and auxiliary bishop
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 14th Century