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Half-length portrait of Bishop Wocho, Seckau basilica , bishop's chapel (depiction around 1595)

Wocho (also Bocho, Vocco, Wokke or Bokk ; † October 30, 1334 ) was Bishop of Seckau .

Wocho was a pastor in Marburg an der Drau from 1300 to 1315 and was appointed Bishop of Seckau in 1317 by the Archbishop of Salzburg, Friedrich von Leibnitz .

Wocho did not play a major political role and had only loose contact with the Archdiocese of Salzburg. In his diocese he tried to renew the cathedral monastery spiritually and economically. Through numerous purchases and restorations of episcopal fiefs, he was able to increase the possession of the diocese considerably.

Bishop Wocho died on October 30, 1334 and was buried in Seckau Cathedral. His grave site is the oldest grave monument of a bishop in the basilica Seckau and a fresco in the parish church Pürgg is the earliest pictorial representation of a Seckau bishop.

literature

• Erwin Gatz (ed.): The bishops of the Holy Roman Empire. 1198 to 1448. A biographical lexicon. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-10303-3 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich I of Mitterkirchen	Bishop of Seckau 1308-1317	Henry III. from Burghausen