Johannes Zatow

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Johannes Zatow (Zacow, Zacous) OFM († before March 15, 1395) was auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Schwerin and titular bishop of Christopolis from 1394 to 1395 .

Life

On July 17, 1394, the Franciscan Johannes Zatow, a member of the Saxon Franciscan Province , was appointed titular bishop of Christopolis . The entries in the papal registers do not indicate that Bishop John was requested or intended to assist in the episcopal service for a specifically named diocese and that this diocese was obliged to pay a reasonable amount of maintenance. Bishop Johannes does not appear as vicarius in pontificalibus in any of the north German dioceses . It can be assumed that he was not able to exercise the episcopal office very often in his very short term. His successor, the Franciscan Thomas Bittyler (Buttylerus) was named on March 15, 1395. The files of the Vatican Secret Archives commemorate the death of Bishop John twice, as well as the fact that he died extra Romanam Curiam ("outside the Roman Curia ").

The two documents received from May 30, 1424 and October 20, 1424 on a memorial foundation and a Vicaria perpetua at the Gerberkapelle in Rostock by the priest Johannes Zatow and the Wismar citizen Johannes Bomgarde suggest that there were relationships with Rostock and Wismar . There is documentary evidence of a Franciscan Johannes Zatow as a lecturer at the Wismar Franciscan monastery in 1378 . On December 8, 1378, the convent of the Ordo fratrum minorum in the city of Wismar confirmed a foundation and promised prayer and holy masses . After the Guardian Petrus, the lecturer Johannes Zatow was named in the first place, even before the Vice Guardian Elerus. This is likely to have been the later titular bishop of Christopolis.

Due to his activities in Wismar and Rostock, Bishop Johannes Zatow can rightly be regarded as auxiliary bishop in the Schwerin diocese, although he was not able to act much as such due to apparent sickness and imminent death.

Only the certificate of appointment of his successor in the episcopal office of March 15, 1395 gives a certain indication of the time of his death, since Zatow is mentioned in it as deceased. It is not known where the death occurred and the place of burial.

literature

  • Josef Traeger : The bishops of the medieval diocese of Schwerin. St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1984, pp. 199-201.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to information from Dr. Servant from the German Historical Institute in Rome, January 28, 1977.
  2. ^ Konrad Eubel: Hierarchia catholica medii aevi . I., p. 186.
  3. ↑ Church Economics Archive Rostock, Salvage Signum II. No. 54, 57.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Huschner: Wismar Monastery Holy Cross. 2016, p. 1208.
  5. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch XIX (1899) No. 11154.
  6. ^ Ingo Ulpts: The mendicant orders in Mecklenburg. ( Saxonia Franciscana Volume 6) Werl 1995, p. 201.
personal data
SURNAME Zatow, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zacow, Johannes; Zacous, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Titular Bishop of Christopolis, auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Schwerin
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 14th century or 15th century
Place of death Schwerin diocese