Gaubald (c. 700 – 23 December 761) was the first
bishop of Regensburg
The Bishops of Regensburg (Ratisbon) are bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. after the foundation of the
diocese of Regensburg (he had been preceded by a number of ''
episcopi vagantes
In Christianity, an ''episcopus vagans'' (plural ''episcopi vagantes''; Latin for 'wandering bishops' or 'stray bishops') is a person consecrated, in a "clandestine or irregular way", as a bishop outside the structures and canon law of the estab ...
'' active in the region). He has been
beatified
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. His name is also spelled ''Gawibald'', ''Geupald'' or ''Gaibald''.
Life
He was ordained bishop in
Regensburg in 739 by
Saint Boniface. Gaubald was also abbot-bishop or
mitred abbot of
St. Emmeram's Abbey. In 740 he moved the bones of the late
Emmeram of Regensburg
Saint Emmeram of Regensburg (also ''Emeram(m)us'', ''Emmeran'', ''Emmerano'', ''Emeran'', ''Heimrammi'', ''Haimeran'', or ''Heimeran'') was a Christian bishop and a martyr born in Poitiers, Aquitaine. Having heard of idolatry in Bavaria, Emmera ...
to the crypt in the later Benedictine abbey. On his own death, Gaubald was buried in the
Ramwoldkrypta in the Abbey.
Sources
* Albert Lehner: ''Sacerdos = Bischof. Klerikale Hierarchie in der Emmeramsvita''. Leipzig 2007.
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Roman Catholic bishops of Regensburg
German beatified people
700 births
761 deaths
German abbots
8th-century bishops in Bavaria