Pilgrim (Olomouc)

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Pilgrim (also: Pilgrimus , Peregrinus ; Czech: Pelhřim ; † March 2, 1184 ) was bishop of Olomouc .

Pilgrim was provost of the cathedral in Prague . After the death of the Olomouc Bishop Dietleb in 1181 Duke Friedrich Pilgrim appointed his successor. Together with the newly elected Prague Bishop Heinrich (Břetislav) he traveled to Mainz , where both on 23 May 1182 by the Metropolitan , the episcopal ordination received.

Like his predecessors, Pilgrim also supported the expansion of the Premonstratensian order . During his tenure, the first women's monastery in Moravia , the Premonstratensian Rosa Coeli, was founded in Kanitz ( Dolní Kounice ). In 1183 he is said to have consecrated a church in Datschitz .

literature

  • Josef Matzke : Pilgrim 1182-83 ("11th Bishop") . In: Mährisch-Schlesische Heimat, born in 1967, issue 1, pp. 274–275
predecessor Office successor
Dietleb Bishop of Olomouc
1181–1184
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