Guillaume Adam ( la, Guillelmus Adae), also known in English as William Adam (died c. 1341), was a Dominican missionary, writer, and

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archbishop. Adam served as the Papal missionary in

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from 1314 to 1317, one of six Dominicans sent by

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to Persia. However, it is now thought that Adam was probably in Persia before 1314, during the pontificate of Pope Clement V. He was transferred to

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in 1318, and served as their bishop. In 1322, he was promoted to archbishop of Soltaniyeh in Persia. On 26 October 1324, he was elected

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of Antivari in the Old Doclea. After a disagreement with the Pope, Adam stepped down as archbishop in 1341. William wrote one treatise on the recovery of the Holy Land—''De modo sarracenos extirpandi '' in 1316/13717—and he has been put forward as the author of the anonymous ''

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'', written in 1332.Antony R. Leopold, ''How to Recover the Holy Land: The Crusade Proposals of the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries'' (Ashgate, 2000), p. 39.

Works

* ''De modo Sarracenos extirpandi'' (ca. 1316–1317) * ''Arbor caritatis'' * ''Sermones'' *? ''

'' (1332)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Guillaume Adam Archbishops of Antivari 14th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Serbia Roman Catholic archbishops of Izmir French Dominicans 14th-century French Roman Catholic bishops 1340s deaths Year of birth unknown Year of death uncertain