Poppo (bishop of Kraków)

Poppo was a very early Bishop of Krakow.[1]

Born in the 10th century he was a German from Thuringia, and educated in the “archikate ralnej school”, South of Magdeburg. He was probably responsible for the construction in Kraków, of the Rotunda of the Virgin Mary.

He is considered to be the first Bishop of Kraków, although missionary Bishops were active in the years just prior to his bishopric. His name is known from the 13th century chronicle “Sede Vacante w krakowski” which lists the names of the first nine Bishops[2] and Thietmar of Merseburg, who wrote that three bishops, Reinberna, Bishop of Solno-Kołobrzeskiej, Poppona of Kraków and Jan I of Wroclaw were all subjected to Bishops of Gniezno metropolis.[3] He became Bishop around 1000AD and there is some speculation he was the same person as Gompon.[4] He died 1008AD. If he was Gompo, he was also Bishop of Kraków for the years 1008-1016AD. However, the early chronicles do give him his own entry.

References

  1. ↑ Piotr Biliński,Żywoty sławnych Biskupów Krakowskich PROHOR i PROKULF.
  2. ↑ His name is third in that list.
  3. ↑ Józef Mitkowski, Kraków wczesnodziejowy in Celina Bobińska, Kraków i Małopolska przez dzieje, (Kraków 1970) p101.
  4. ↑ Piotr Biliński,Żywoty sławnych Biskupów Krakowskich PROHOR i PROKULF.


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