Bistumswappen of
Passau.Berengar of Passau (* in
Passau
Passau (; bar, label=Central Bavarian, Båssa) is a city in Lower Bavaria, Germany, also known as the Dreiflüssestadt ("City of Three Rivers") as the river Danube is joined by the Inn from the south and the Ilz from the north.
Passau's popu ...
, 14 July 1045 in Passau) was the
Bishop of Passau from 1013 to 1045.
[Herbert Wilhelm Wurster: Das Bistum Passau und seine Geschichte. 4 Bände, Straßburg 1994-2010.]
Berengar was the son of a wealthy citizen and probably one of the few Bishops of Passau born in Passau. During Berengar's reign, the
Hungarian Queen Gisela came to Passau to enter the
Benedictine nunnery
A convent is a community of monks, nuns, religious brothers or, sisters or priests. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The word is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglican C ...
of
Niedernburg, where she soon became an
abbess. On the Ascension of the Ascension of the Year 1045, Emperor
Henry III. As a guest of Bishop Berengars in Passau, he maintained close relations with the later Abbot
Gotthard of Niederaltaich and the famous hermit Gunther.
References
Year of birth unknown
11th-century bishops in Bavaria
Roman Catholic bishops of Passau
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