Markus Kuen

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Markus Kuen (also: Marek Khuen ; Czech: Marek Khuen z Olomouce ; † February 10, 1565 in Kremsier ) was Bishop of Olomouc .

Life

Markus Kuen

Markus Kuen came from a middle-class Olomouc family. After studying theology at the University of Vienna , he became a canon around 1523 and dean of the Olomouc cathedral chapter in 1541 .

After the death of the Olomouc bishop Johannes Dubravius , King Ferdinand I, in his capacity as King of Bohemia, recommended the then Canon of Wroclaw and Olomouc and later Wroclaw Bishop Kaspar von Logau as his successor. However, this proposal was rejected by the Moravian nobility. That is why the cathedral chapter elected Markus Kuen as bishop on October 6, 1553. The papal confirmation followed on December 22nd of that year.

Because of the spread of Lutheranism , Kuen's term of office falls at a religiously difficult time. He intensified the training of priests and opposed the appointment of unordinate clergy by the nobility. From his own resources he sponsored the cathedral school, for which he also issued new school regulations. He bought back the pledged episcopal goods in the dominions of Mürau and Hochwald as well as Groß-Teinitz . In relation to the Utraquists he advocated rapprochement and therefore supported the king's call for the lay chalice to be allowed . He received the papal cup permission in August 1564.

Since Kuen was ill in the last years of his life, the Olomouc canon Wilhelm Prusinovský von Víckov took over his official duties. Kuen died in Kremsier and was buried in the Olomouc Cathedral. A renaissance tomb there commemorates him.

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predecessor Office successor
John XVI Dubravius Bishop of Olomouc
1553–1565
Wilhelm Prusinovský from Víckov