Conrad II, Bishop of Hildesheim

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Conrad II (or Konrad II) was Bishop of Hildesheim from 1221 to 1246.

He studied at the University of Paris, and is said to have taught theology there as well, and to have preached against the Albigenses. He was dean of the Speyer Cathedral from 1209 to 1216, and a scholastic at the Mainz Cathedral from 1216 to 1221, during which time he oversaw the recruitment in Germany for the Fifth Crusade.[1]

He was appointed Bishop of Hildesheim in 1221, becoming part of a new wave of bishops with a reputation for scholarship, which was at the time not common in Germany.[1] He was noted for both his ecclesiastical and temporal leadership of the bishopric.[2]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b Pixton, pp. 203–204
  2. ^ Pixton, p. 218

[edit] References

  • Paul B. Pixton (1995). The German Episcopacy and the Implementation of the Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1216–1245. BRILL. ISBN 9004102620.