Bishop of Chur

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The Bishop of Chur (German: Bischof von Chur) is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chur, Grisons, Switzerland (Latin: Dioecesis Curiensis).

[edit] History

A Bishop of Chur is first mentioned in 451/ 452 when its Bishop St. Asimo attended the Synod of Milan (Mansi, IV, 141), but probably existed a century earlier. The Rt. Rev. John Fidelis Battaglia, consecrated 1 March, 1889, is the ninety-sixth Bishop of Chur. The see was at first suffragan to the archbishop of Milan, but after the treaty of Verdun (843) it became suffragan to Mainz. In consequence of political changes it became, in 1803, immediately subject to the Holy See. According to local traditions, the first Bishop of Chur was St. Lucius, a reputed King of Britain, who is said to have died a martyr at Chur about the year 176, and whose relics are preserved in the cathedral. St. Lucius is venerated as the principal patron of the diocese. (See G. Mayer, "St. Luzi bei Chur", Lindau, 1876.) The country had to pass through very severe struggles for the Christian faith. Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, and the Lombards after him, attempted to introduce Arianism in the sixth and seventh centuries.

Prior to 1803, the Bishop was a Prince-Bishop of the Holy Roman Empire. The Bishop was part of the Austrian Circle of the Imperial Circle Estates.

[edit] List of Bishops of Chur

452-455 Asimo
ca. 460 Pruritius
ca. 470 Claudian
ca. 485 Ursicin I.
ca. 495 Sidonius
ca. 520 Eddo
530-546 Valentinianus
548-? Paulinus
ca. 590 Theodore
ca. 614 Viktor I.
 ? Verendarius ?
 ?-681 Ruthard
681-696 Paschalis
696?-712 Viktor II.
712-735 Vigilius
ca. 740 Adalbert
754-760 Ursicin II.
760-773 Tello
773-800? Constantius
800-820 Remigius
820-833 Viktor III.
833-844 Verendarius
844-849 Gerbrach
849-879 Hesso
879-887 Rothar
887-914 Dietholf
914-949 Waldo I.
949-968 Hartbert
969-995 Hiltibold
995-1002 Waldo II.
1002-1026 Ulrich I.
1026-1039 Hartmann I.
1039-1070 Dietmar
1070-1078 Heinrich I.
1079-1088 Norbert
1089-1095 Ulrich II. von Tarasp
1095-1122 Guido
1122-1142 Konrad I. von Biberegg
1142-1150 Konrad II.
1150-1160 Adalgod
1160-1170 Egino von Ehrenfels
1170-1179 Ulrich III. von Tegernfeld
1179-1180 Bruno von Ehrenfels
1180-1193 Heinrich II. von Arbon
1194?-1200 Arnold I. von Matsch
1200-1209 Rainier
1209 Walter
1209-1221 Arnold II. von Matsch
1221-1222 Heinrich III. von Realta and/or

Albrecht von Güttingen, Abbot of St. Gall

1222-1226 Rudolf I. von Güttingen
1226-1233 Berthold Graf von Helfenstein
1233-1237 Ulrich IV. Graf von Kyburg
1237-1251 Volkhard von Neuenburg
1251-1272 Heinrich IV. Graf von Montfort
1272-1282 Konrad III. von Belmont
1282-1290 Friedrich I. Graf von Montfort
1290-1298 Berthold II. Graf von Heiligenberg
1298 Hugo Graf von Montfort
1298-1321 Siegfried von Geilnhausen
1321-1324 Rudolf II. Graf von Montfort
1324-1325 Hermann von Eichenbach
1325-1331 Johann I. von Pfefferhart
1331-1355 Ulrich V. von Lenzburg
1355-1368 Peter Gelyto
1368-1376 Friedrich II. von Erdingen
1376-1388 Johann II. von Ehingen
1388-1390 Bartholomäus
1390-1416 Hartmann II. Graf von Werdenberg-Sargans
1416-1417 Johann III. Ambundi
1417-1440 Johann IV. Naso
1440-1441 Konrad IV. von Rechberg
1441-1453 Heinrich V. von Höwen, Bishop of Constance
1453-1458 Leonhard Wyssmayer
1458-1491 Ortlieb von Brandis
1491-1503 Heinrich VI. von Höwen
1503-1541 Paul Ziegler von Ziegelberg
1541-1548 Licius Iter
1548-1565 Thomas Planta
1565-1581 Beatus à Porta
1581-1601 Peter II. von Rascher
1601-1627 Giovanni V. Flugi de Aspremont
1627-1635 Joseph Mohr, von Zernez
1636-1661 Giovanni VI. Flugi de Aspremont
1661-1692 Ulrich VI. di Monte-Villa
1692-1728 Ulrich VII. Freiherr von Federspiel
1728-1754 Joseph Benedict Freiherr von Rost
1755-1777 Johann Anton Freiherr von Federspiel
1777-1794 Franz Dionysius Freiherr von Rost
1794-1833 Karl Rudolf Graf von Buol-Schauenstein, last prince-bishop (until 1803)
1834-1844 Johann Georg Bossi
1844-1859 Kaspar I. de Carl ab Hohenbalken
1859-1876 Nikolaus Franz Florentini
1877-1879 Kaspar II. Willi
1879-1888 Franz Konstantin Rampa
1888-1908 Johannes Fidelis Battaglia
1908-1932 Georg Schmid von Grüneck
1932-1941 Laurenz Matthias Vincenz
1941-1962 Cristiano Caminada
1962-1990 Johannes Vonderach
1990-1997 Wolfgang Haas
Since 1997 Amédée Grab

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