Conrad of Urach
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Conrad of Urach was a Cistercian, Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina and declined the papacy.
[edit] Biography
Conrad was born about 1180. At an early age he became canon of the church of St. Lambert, the cathedral of Liège in present Belgium.
In 1199 he entered the Cistercian monastery of Villers, also in Belgium, of which he soon became prior, and in 1209 abbot. In 1214 he was chosen Abbot of Clairvaux and, in 1217, Abbot of Cîteaux and general of his order.
Pope Honorius III created him cardinal on 8 January, 1219, and charged him with two important legations: one in France (1220-23), to suppress the Albigenses; the other in Germany (1224-26), to preach and arrange the crusade which Emperor Frederick II had vowed to undertake.
After the death of Honorius III the cardinals agreed to elect him pope, but he refused the dignity.
He died in 1227.
The Cistercians venerate him as Blessed (liturgical feest on 30 September).
[edit] Source
- This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
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