Zoen Tencarari was an Italian

canon lawyer Canon law (from grc, κανών, , a 'straight measuring rod, ruler') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is th ...

, papal vice-legate, and

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from 1240 to about 1261. He taught at the

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, where in 1256 he founded a college. He glossed the ''Compilatio quinta'', and brought

Henry of Segusio Henry of Segusio, usually called Hostiensis, (c. 1200 – 6 or 7 November 1271) was an Italian canonist of the thirteenth century, born at Susa (Segusio), in the ancient Diocese of Turin. He died at Lyon. Life He undertook the study of Roman law ...

to the

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. 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 of 1254. He had work done to improve the residence of the bishops at

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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