Jordanes (Poland)
Epitaph Jordanes' in Poznan
Jordanes (also called Jordan ; † 984 ) was the first bishop of Poland .
Life
Jordanes was called to the office of mission bishop in Poznan in 968 . As a mission bishop he was directly subordinate to the Pope in Rome . He came to Poland in 966 with the Bohemian Princess Dubrawka either from Italy or from the Rhineland , where Mieszko I , the Polish prince , wanted to be baptized and his country to be Christianized .
His successor in the office of Bishop of Posen was Bishop Unger around 992, after about eight years of vacancy .
The Jordanes annals are named after him.
See also
literature
- Paul Fridolin Kehr : The Archdiocese of Magdeburg and the first organization of the Christian Church in Poland (series of treatises of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Philological-Historical Class , year 1920, No. 1). Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences, Berlin 1920.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jordanes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jordan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | first bishop of Poland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 10th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 984 |