Suitbert (Verden)

Suitbert (also Suiebert , Swibert , Swibrecht ) († around 800 ) is said to have been the first bishop of Verden and is a saint of the Catholic Church.

There is no reliable news about him. He is said to have been an Anglo-Saxon and initially a monk in the Amorbach monastery . He is said to have been sent by Charlemagne in 786 as a bishop to northern East Westphalia . His name was mentioned in a document attributed to Karl. But this is a forgery from the 12th century. The background was that Bishop Hermann von Verden had a false early history of the diocese constructed in order to fend off claims of the archdiocese of Bremen . So there may never have been such a bishop.

He was previously venerated as a saint in the Diocese of Osnabrück . His feast day was April 30th, later it was May 11th.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl der Grosse (RI I) n. 271 Regest RI-online
2. ^ Document book of the bishops and the cathedral chapter of Verden (Verden document book, 1st section). Volume 1 From the Beginning to 1300, Volume 2 1300–1380, edit. v. Mindermann, Arend (= series of publications of the regional association of the former duchies of Bremen and Verden 13, 21 = publications of the historical commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen 205, 220). Landscape Association of the former Duchies of Bremen and Verden, Stade 2001, 2004. CVII, 921, LXVIII, 1230 S. Discussed by Gerhard Köbler. Online version

literature

• Vita diui Swiberti Verdensis eccl [esi] e ep [iscop] i Saxonu [m] Frisioru [m] q [ue] ap [osto] li: Cuius sacri corp [or] is… Heinrich von Neuss, Coloniae 1508. ( Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )
• Anne-Katrin Köhler: The construction of a rule. Saint Suitbert as the first bishop of Verden, in: Ways to the document, Ways of the document, ed. v. Paul Herold and Karel Hruza, Vienna a. a. 2005 (Research on the history of the emperor and the pope / supplements to JF Böhmer, Regesta Imperii 24), pp. 23–40
• Karl Mühlek:  Suitbert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 17, Bautz, Herzberg 2000, ISBN 3-88309-080-8 .