Zoen Tencarari was an Italian canon lawyer, papal vice-legate, and bishop of Avignon from 1240 to about 1261. He taught at the University of Bologna, where in 1256 he founded a college. He glossed the ''Compilatio quinta'', and brought Henry of Segusio to the

see of Sisteron The former French diocese of Sisteron existed until the French Revolution. Its see was at Sisteron in southern France and at Forcalquier, in the modern department of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Sisteron was the only diocese in France which had two ...

. He was a strong opponent of the

Albigensians Catharism (; from the grc, καθαροί, katharoi, "the pure ones") was a Christian dualist or Gnostic movement between the 12th and 14th centuries which thrived in Southern Europe, particularly in northern Italy and southern France. Foll ...

. He presided at the

Council of Albi The Roman Catholic Council of Albi was held in 1254 by Louis IX of France on his return from the Seventh Crusade, under the presidency of Zoen, Bishop of Avignon and Papal Legate for the final repression of the Albigenses, the reformation of cler ...

of 1254. He had work done to improve the residence of the bishops at Noves.Noves website
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*Léon-Honoré Labande (1908), ''Avignon au 13eme siecle : l'eveque Zoen Tencarari et les Avignonnais'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Zoen Tencarari Canon law jurists 13th-century Italian Roman Catholic bishops Bishops of Avignon 13th-century Italian jurists