Luido

Luido ruled as Bishop of Speyer approx. 726 to 743. In the official census of Speyer bishops, he ranks as No. 8.

Luido is not mentioned in the oldest Speyer bishop list from the Schäftlarn Abbey , some sources call his existence as Bishop of Speyer questionable.

Tradition says that Luido - like his predecessor Dragobodo - came from the Weissenburg monastery . Dr. Wilhelm Eisengrein (1544–1570) describes him in 1564 in his “Speyer Chronicle” as a “saint” . He was in contact with St. Boniface and was evidently not entirely unknown in Rome either. From his third trip to Rome, 738, Bonifatius brought a letter from Pope Gregory III as apostolic legate . with, which is aimed at the bishops of Germania and Alemannia. Bishop Luido is named here. Around 740 Boniface held a synod in Regensburg, in which Bishop Luido von Speyer took part at the express request of the Pope (according to Jakob Baumann: Der Pilger , 1906). The Speyer bishop is also present at the very important 1st German National Council (“ Concilium Germanicum ”) on April 21, 742 in Worms or Frankfurt, but not named. It seems to have been Luido. Whether it was he who took part in the 2nd National Council in Hainaut on March 1, 743 is at least questionable, since the documents already name David as the Speyer bishop from 744 onwards .

The activities of St. Philip of Zell , St. Pirminius and St. Boniface had an even greater impact in Luido's reign than in the pontificate of his predecessor Sigwin . St. Pirminius is now mainly active in the Palatinate / Alsatian area and founded the Hornbach monastery around 740 in today's Diocese of Speyer, where he later retired and was also buried.

literature

• Sigmund Joseph Zimmer : Article Speyer. In: Wetzer and Welte's Church Lexicon or Encyclopedia of Catholic Theology and its auxiliary sciences. Volume 11, Herder'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Freiburg 1882–1903
• Jakob Baumann: History of the Bishops of Speyer. In: The Pilgrim . Born in 1906
• Ludwig Stamer : Church history of the Palatinate. Volume 1, Speyer 1936
• Hans Ammerich : The diocese of Speyer and its history. Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the Salian period (1125). Kehl am Rhein 1998, ISBN 3-927095-36-2 , p. 20.

predecessor	Office	successor
Sigwin	Bishop of Speyer 726–743	David