Johannes von Wildeshausen

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Johannes von Wildeshausen (also called Johannes Teutonicus) (born around 1180 in Wildeshausen, died 4 November 1252 in Strasbourg) was master general of the Dominican order.

It is still of Saint Dominic taken up to Bologna in the medals its. From 1224 he accompanied the papal legates in Germany. He preached crusade in South Germany and mediated in the conflict between the Stedingern and the archbishop of Bremen.

He was Provincial in Hungary from 1231 to 1233; bishop of Diakovar in Croatia from 1233 to 1237. He went to 1237 as an envoy of Pope Gregory IX to the Bulgarian prince Asen II, and Provincial of the Lombardy from 1238 to 1240. On 1241 were selected Johannes in Paris to the medal master. He was name Frater more magister episcopus. He preached in five languages, and had good relations with the papal Curia.

Under his lead, the general chapters decided two important changes of the constitutions: The general chapters would take place no longer only alternating between Bologna and Paris, but by agreement, so 1245 in Cologne, 1247 in Montpellier, 1249 in Trier, 1250 in London. The university monopoly of Paris was broken and from 1248 new general studies in Montpellier, Bologna, Cologne and Oxford were established.

Johannes provided for the standardization of the Dominican liturgy; and gave to the order a firmer structure. He particularly promoted the missions and study.