Johannes Thiel (Bishop)

Johannes Thiel , OPraem (also Johann Thiel ; * 1485 in Breslau , Kingdom of Bohemia ; † September 4, 1545 ibid) was titular bishop of Nicopolis ( Nicopolitanus ) and auxiliary bishop in Breslau .

Life

Johannes Thiel was born the son of a butcher. As a Premonstratensian of the St. Vincent monastery in Breslau , he was provost of the Premonstratensian Sisters in Czarnowanz and from 1529 Abbot of St. Vincent. In 1534 he pledged part of the monastery property in order to grant Emperor Ferdinand I an aid in fighting the Turkish wars .

On April 24, 1539 he was by Pope Paul III. appointed titular bishop of Nicopolis and auxiliary bishop in Breslau. Since his patron, the Breslau bishop Jakob von Salza on August 25th. J. died, the latter could no longer grant him episcopal ordination. That is why Johannes Thiel was requested by the Pope on December 11, 1539 to be ordained by a bishop of his choice. The consecration took place in July 1540 in Gniezno .

When the reformer Ambrosius Moibanus gave a sermon in St. Elisabeth on Palm Sunday 1541 in which he rejected the palm consecration and other church ceremonies, Auxiliary Bishop Thiel felt offended. Moibanus then wrote a Latin epistle in which he attacked the auxiliary bishop again. The answer to the epistle was written by the Wroclaw canon Johannes Cochläus , who was loyal to Rome . It had to be printed in Ingolstadt because Moibanus had succeeded in preventing the publication of the font in Breslau.

At the papal request, Johannes Thiel became canon at Breslau Cathedral in 1544 . Since he could not prove a three-year university course or academic degree, the cathedral chapter refused him participation in its meetings. He had further benefices at the Breslauer Kreuzstift and as provost of Strelno in the Archdiocese of Gniezno. In 1545, Duke Johann von Oels confirmed the estates in his Duchy of Oels .

Johannes Thiel died on September 4, 1545 in Breslau and was buried in the collegiate church of St. Vincent.

Because of the effects of the Reformation under the bishops Balthasar von Promnitz and Kaspar von Logau , the diocese of Breslau subsequently remained without an auxiliary bishop for more than 30 years. Years of efforts by the cathedral chapter to appoint an auxiliary bishop were unsuccessful.

literature

• Jan Copyc : Thiel, Johannes (OPraem) (1485–1545) . In: Erwin Gatz : The Bishops of the Holy Roman Empire 1448–1668 , ISBN 3-428-08422-5 , pp. 693f.
• Joseph Jungnitz : The auxiliary bishops of Breslau . Verlag von Franz Goerlich, Breslau 1914. pp. 77–85.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich von Füllstein	Auxiliary bishop in Breslau 1539–1545	Adam Weisskopf