Solomon I (bishop Of Constance)
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Solomon (or Salomon) I (died 871) was the
Bishop of Constance The Prince-Bishopric of Constance, (german: Hochstift Konstanz, Fürstbistum Konstanz, Bistum Konstanz) was a small ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from the mid-12th century until its secularisation in 1802–1803. In his dua ...
from an unknown date between 835 and 847 until his death. He was the first of an "episcopal dynasty" which ruled Constance until 919 and briefly held the
Diocese of Freising The Archdiocese of Munich and Freising (german: Erzbistum München und Freising, la, Archidioecesis Monacensis et Frisingensis) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria, Germany.
from 884 until 906 and that of Chur from 913 until 949. In 847, his diocese was the first to be disturbed by the preachings of a false prophetess named
Thiota Thiota (; 847 AD) was a heretical Christian prophetess of the ninth century. She was originally from Alemannia (then part of East Francia), and in 847 she began prophesying that the world would end that year. Her story is known from the ''Annale ...
. She was condemned at a synod in
Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-west, with Ma ...
later that year and ceased to be a problem thereafter. Solomon attended the synod of Worms (868).


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The Annals of Fulda
'. (Manchester Medieval series, Ninth-Century Histories, Volume II.)
Reuter, Timothy Timothy Alan Reuter (25 January 1947 – 14 October 2002), grandson of the former mayor of Berlin Ernst Reuter, was a German-British historian who specialized in the study of medieval Germany, particularly the social, military and ecclesiastical i ...
(trans.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. Roman Catholic bishops of Constance 871 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Germany-RC-bishop-stub