List of the bishops of Litomysl

The Litomysl bishopric in Eastern Bohemia was founded in 1344 as a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Prague , which was raised in the same year and which also became the ecclesiastical province of Bohemia and Moravia .

The following people were bishops of the Litomyšl diocese

• 1344–1353 John I.
• 1353–1364 John II of Neumarkt (*)
• 1364–1368 Albrecht von Sternberg
• 1368–1371 Peter Jelito (also: Peter Gelyto also: Peter Wurst )
• 1371–1380 Albrecht von Sternberg
• 1379–1387 Heinrich Kluk von Klučov (opposing bishop)
• 1380-1387 John III. Sobeslav
• 1388–1418 John IV of Bucca, the Iron
• 1420–1442 Albrecht von Březí (1416–1418 Elect of Olomouc )
• 1441–1449 Matthias Kučka
• 1453–1446 Beneš von Zwittau ( administrator )
• 1462 Elias von Neuhaus (administrator)
• 1474 Johannes Bavor
• 1478–1492 Elias von Neuhaus (administrator)
• 1552 Luke (administrator)
• 1554 Wolfgang (administrator)

(*): During the episcopate Johannes von Neumarkt, his brother Mathias is recorded as auxiliary bishop .

literature

• Joachim Bahlcke , Winfried Eberhard, Miloslav Polívka (eds.): Handbook of historical places . Volume: Bohemia and Moravia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 329). Kröner, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-520-32901-8 , p. 732 (list of bishops).
• Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops until the end of the sixteenth century . Volume 1, Leipzig 1858, pp. 559-561 .