Johannes Meler

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Johannes Meler OSA , also Johann Meler or Johannes Pictor (* in Lippstadt ; † 1530 at the earliest ) was auxiliary bishop in Münster and Osnabrück .

Life

Johannes Meler (painter, Latinized Pictor) from Lippstadt entered the monastery of the Augustinian hermits in his hometown and was prior in Osnabrück from 1509 to 1511 . On January 18, 1518 he was consecrated as auxiliary bishop for the dioceses of Osnabrück and Munster in Rome to the bishop of Trikala in Thessaly ( titular diocese of Tricca ). He was assigned 200 ducats a year for maintenance. In 1528 he described himself as S. Theologiae professor .

In 1520 he consecrated a chapel prope fratres conventuales in Cologne and worked as commissioner for Bishop Hermann von Wied in the Archdiocese of Cologne . As such, he consecrated a chapel in the Zuggelen in Kamen on February 11, 1521 . On February 12, 1521, he inaugurated a chapel built in Lünen in honor of the Holy Cross. Around 1522 he is said to have also been active as auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Constance ( Jean Meler, docteur en theologie de I 'ordre de Saint-Augustin, evèque de Tricale & Suffragant vers l'an 1522 ).

On September 5th, 1524, he promised the Osnabrück city magistrate not to let his house up den nyggen graven come into clerical hands. In 1529 he consecrated two altars in the tower of the Osnabrück Cathedral and in 1530 again told the city council not to hand over his property in the city to clergy.

Nothing is known about his further fate, in particular about the date of his death.

literature

  • Wilhelm Kohl : The Diocese of Münster 7.4: The Diocese (Germania Sacra. NF 37.4), Berlin / New York 2004, p. 31f.
  • Thomas Beckmann: The former Augustinian hermit monastery in Osnabrück (= Osnabrück historical sources and research. Volume 13). Osnabrück 1970
  • Wilhelm Berning : The Diocese of Osnabrück before the Reformation was introduced in 1543 . Osnabrück, 1940

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Individual evidence

  1. Konrad Eubel : Hierarchia Catholica , Volume 3, 2nd edition 1923, p. 318 with note 1
  2. ^ Kohl: Diocese of Münster, p. 31
  3. ^ Anton Josef Binterim: Suffraganei Colonienses extraordinarii , Kirchhemius 1843, p. 67
  4. Histoire ecclesiastique de l'Allemagne , 1724, p. 112
  5. Berning: Das Bistum Osnabrück, p. 216 with note 83
  6. ^ Berning: The Diocese of Osnabrück, p. 152
  7. Berning: The Diocese of Osnabrück, p. 16, note 31