Bistumswappen of
Passau.Rüdiger von Bergheim (c.1175 – 14 April 1258) was
Bishop of Chiemsee from 1216 to 1233 and
Bishop of Passau
The Diocese of Passau is a Roman Catholic diocese in Germany that is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising.[Salzburghofen
Freilassing (), until 1923 Salzburghofen is a town of some 16,000 inhabitants in the southeastern corner of Bavaria, Germany. It belongs to the "Regierungsbezirk" Oberbayern and the "Landkreis" (County) of Berchtesgadener Land.
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, until 1215 as a
provost of the Augustine Monastery Zell am See and starting from 1215 as a canon of
Passau. In 1216 he was appointed the first bishop of the newly founded
Diocese of Chiemsee, which was a suffragan
bishop of Salzburg
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Salzburg ( la, Archidioecesis Salisburgensis) is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria. The archdiocese is one of two Austrian archdioceses, serving alongside the Archdiocese o ...
. The episcopal ordination took place at
Chiemsee by the Salzburg bishop
Eberhard von Regensberg Eberhard is an old Germanic name meaning the strength or courage of a wild boar.
People
First name
*Eberhard of Friuli (815–866), Duke and key figure in the Carolingian Empire
* Eberhard of Béthune (died 1212), Flemish grammarian
*Eberhard I, D ...
.
[ Alois Schmid: Rüdiger von Bergheim (um 1175–1258). In: Erwin Gatz: Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches 1198–1448. , p.553]
After the resignation of Bishop Gebhard von Plain, the Passau Bishopric was vacant for a year because the Passau cathedral chapter could not agree on any candidate, Pope
Gregory IX
Pope Gregory IX ( la, Gregorius IX; born Ugolino di Conti; c. 1145 or before 1170 – 22 August 1241) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 March 1227 until his death in 1241. He is known for issuing the '' Decre ...
then appointed
Rüdiger von Bergheim on 27 June 1233 to Passau.
It is not known whether Rüdiger was able to reduce the debt assumed by his predecessor. Soon he fell into conflict with the Kurie, as he stood in the political disputes on the side of the Staufer. From 1234 to 1235 he supported Emperor Frederick II in the struggle against his son Henry and from 1236 to 1239 against Duke Frederick II "the warring" of Austria. That is why he was excommunicated in 1240 by the papal legate Albert Behaim, who was a declared opponent of Frederick II. In the following, the diocese had to accept the loss of Vilshofen as well as the Ortenburg fiefs. The Bavarian Duke Otto II "the illustrious" took the opportunity and undertook a foray into the Passau region. After the imperial party collapsed in the southeast of the Reich in 1245, Rüdiger von Bergheim achieved the abolition of excommunication. After the extinction of the Babenbergs in 1246, whose efforts had always been rejected by the Diocese of Passau, he endeavored to expand his position as a sovereign.
Rüdiger von Bergheim was probably deposed in 1248, probably on the initiative of Behaim. In his place the Silesian Duke Konrad II was elected, but the Kurie failed to confirm in early 1249. In the same year Pope Innocent IV repeated the excommunication of Rüdiger von Bergheim and demanded his resignation. Since Rüdiger was not ready to take this step, he was excommunicated once more by the papal legate, Petrus de Collemedio, Cardinal Bishop of Albano, on 17 February 1250, and deposed for the second time. On 11 March 1250 Pope Innocent IV confirmed this procedure. Subsequently, Rüdiger von Bergheim was expelled from his bishopric. His place of death is not known.
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1170s births
Roman Catholic bishops of Passau
Year of birth uncertain
1258 deaths
13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Bavaria
