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  Munich-Freising
Under Bishops Anno, (855-75), Arnold (875-83), and Waldo (883-903), brother of Bishop Salomo of Constance, the monastic element in the cathedral chapter gradually withdrew; the Benedictines of the cathedral mountain seem to have abandoned it and to have established themselves at the foot of the Weihenstephan.
In opposition to the bishops chosen by the cathedral chapter, which was favourable to the emperor, three others were named in succession by the pope, and for more than a century afterwards the popes appointed the bishops of this diocese, ignoring the privilege of free choice possessed by the chapter.
The Bishops of Augsburg, Passau, and Ratisbon became the suffragans of the new ecclesiastical province.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/munich-freising.html   (2869 words)

  
 Freising - LoveToKnow 1911
FREISING, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Bavaria, on the Isar, 16 m.
Freising has manufactures of agricultural machinery and of porcelain, while printing and brewing are carried on.
Freising is a very ancient town and is said to have been founded by the Romans.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Freising   (314 words)

  
 An example of the von Bodman Lineage
HERMAN TILLEMANS, M.S.C., Titular Bishop of Berissa and Vicar Apostolic of Merauke.
WILLEM PIETER ADRIAAN MARIA MUTSAERTS, Titular Bishop of Lyrba and Coadjutor of `s-Hertogenbosch.
JOANNES ZWYSEN, Titular Bishop of Gerra and Coadjutor of the Vicar Apostolic of `s-Hertogenbosch.
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 Freising manuscripts
The precise date of the origin of the Freising Manuscripts cannot be exactly determined; the original text was probably written in the 9th century.
During the time of the writing of the two manuscripts (sermons on sin and repentance, a confessional form), bishop Abraham was active (from 957 to 994) in Freising, who also acquired a large estate of land in the Creina province around Škofja Loka[?] (now central Slovenia).
Jernej Kopitar[?] and Rajko Nahtigal[?]) linked him closely to the origin of the Freising Manuscripts and, without any firm evidence, attributed him as being the author of one of the texts and suspected that he was of Slovenian origin.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Freising_manuscripts.html   (222 words)

  
 Otto Of Freising - LoveToKnow 1911
1114-1158), German bishop and chronicler, was the fifth son of Leopold III., margrave of Austria, by his wife Agnes, daughter of the emperor Henry IV.
He enjoyed the favour of Conrad's successor, Frederick I.; was probably instrumental in settling the dispute over the duchy of Bavaria in 1156; was present at the famous diet at Besancon in 1157, and, still retaining the dress of a Cistercian monk, died at Morimond on the 22nd of September 1158.
In 1857 a statue of the bishop was erected at Freising.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Otto_Of_Freising   (720 words)

  
 History of the Christian Church, Volume V: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1049-1294.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Otto von Freising calls him " singularitatis amator, novitatis cupidus, " and ranks him with those characters who are apt to produce heresies and to make schismatic disturbances.
Freising: " Arnaldus iste et Italia, civitate Brixia oriundus, ejusdemque ecclesiae clericus ac tantum lector ordinatus, Petrum Abailardum olim praeceptorem habuerat." St. Bernard seems to place the acquaintance at a later period: " Execratus a Petro apostolo, adhaeserat Petro Abailardo." h him against St. Bernard, who became his bitter enemy.
He was charged before the Lateran Synod of 1139 with inciting the laity against the clergy, was deposed as a schismatic (not as a heretic), commanded to be silent, and was expelled from Italy.
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 Otto of Freising
German bishop and chronicler, the fifth son of Leopold III, margrave of Austria, by his wife Agnes, daughter of the emperor Henry IV.
He studied in Paris, where he took an particular interest in philosophy, is said to have been one of the first to introduce the philosophy of Aristotle into Germany, and he served as provost of a new foundation in Austria.
He enjoyed the favor of Conrad's successor, Frederick I; was probably instrumental in settling the dispute over the duchy of Bavaria in 1156; was present at the famous diet at Besançon in 1157, and, still retaining the dress of a Cistercian monk, died at Morimond on the 22nd of September 1158.
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 Freising : Introduction | Frommers.com
Freising, one of Bavaria's oldest towns, grew up around a bishopric founded in the 8th century.
Freising, however, was caught in a bitter rivalry with Munich that had repercussions lasting from the 12th century until the beginning of the 19th century.
Bishop Otto owned a profitable toll bridge (which was not good for other areas) over the Isar until 1156 when Henry the Lion destroyed it and built his own bridge, wresting control of the lucrative salt route from the bishop and founding his settlement, München.
www.frommers.com /destinations/freising/1015010001.html   (210 words)

  
 Freising County (Germany)
The State of Freising (it was a free state ruled by the bishops) became part of Bavaria in 1803.
It is worth noting that the animal on the arms of the city of Freising is not a boar as stated on the International Civic Arms website, but rather a bear.
The crown should probably show, that the territory of the bishop of Freising was autonomous, only subject to the Emperor, and not to the Bavarian duke.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de-by-fs.html   (1018 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Freising, Germany (German Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Freising was founded in 724 by St. Corbinian, and its bishops held temporal power until the see was secularized in 1802–3.
The diocese was restored in 1817, the archbishop of Munich being also bishop of Freising.
The city has a Romanesque cathedral (c.1160), with 18th-century baroque additions, and is the site of one of the world's oldest breweries, licensed in 1146.
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 Contemporary reactions to the foundation of the Templars
Referring to the ‘Three Orders’, a theoretical framework of society devised by the clergy, the bishop of Noyons claims that the knights of the Temple represent what knights ought to be.
Simon, bishop of Noyons, and the canons of Noyons, to Hugh, master of the knights of the Temple and all fighting religiously under him, greetings, and may you faithfully persevere in the life of the religious order you have entered.
Anselm, Bishop of Havelburg, ‘Dialogus’ to Pope Eugenius III.
www.deremilitari.org /resources/sources/templars1.htm   (1387 words)

  
 Pope Benedict XVI
The coat of arms of Pope Benedict XVI incorporates both papal elements, as well as the elements of the coat of arms he bore as Archbishop of München (Munich) and Freising, and as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Also present on the coat of arms is a bear with a pack-saddle, the so-called “Bear of Corbinian." The saintly Bishop Corbinian preached the Christian faith in the Duchy of Bavaria in the 8th century and is considered the spiritual father and patron of the archdiocese.
Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (354-430 AD), was once walking along the seashore, meditating on the unfathomable mystery of the Holy Trinity.
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 THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE
But the bishops and abbots who had been papal partizans were opposed to him on account of his support of his uncle, Henry V, and their fear that he would continue the policy of the latter.
In spite of the opposition of the pope, he made the bishop of Naumburg archbishop of Magdeburg, and finally secured the papal consent to this encroachment upon the powers of the pope, who alone had the right to transfer a bishop from one see to another.
Otto of Freising could not restrain his indignation in writing about these artisans of base birth, who carried on despised trades and yet were armed like knights and held high offices in the cities.
www.shsu.edu /~his_ncp/Munro15.html   (6817 words)

  
 Vatican - Personal Flag and Arms of Benedict XVI (Part II)
This is the ancient emblem of the Diocese of Freising, founded in the eighth century, which became a Metropolitan Archdiocese with the name of München und Freising in 1818, subsequent to the Concordat between Pius VII and King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria (5 June 1817).
The Moor's head is common in the Bavarian tradition and is known as the caput Ethiopicum or the Moor of Freising.
His arms as archbishop/cardinal incorporate the bear with pack on its back from the arms of the city of Freising, the ancient bishopric that is now the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, as well as the city where young Joseph Ratzinger was educated and ordained.
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The coat of arms appeared for the first time in an official commemorative picture that was published by the Vatican on the occasion of the installation of the new Pope; the heraldic insignia are presented there in an outline sketch, however, and not in full color.
Even after that time all the archbishops of Munich and Freising have included the Caput Aethiopum, the head of an Ethiopian, in their episcopal coat of arms.
From 1969 until his appointment as Archbishop of Munich and Freising in 1977 he taught dogmatic theology and the history of doctrine at the University of Regensburg.
www.catholicexchange.com /e3news/index.asp?article_id=171532   (698 words)

  
 The Coat of Arms of His Holiness, Benedict XVI
This is the ancient emblem of the Diocese of Freising, founded in the eighth century, which became a Metropolitan Archdiocese with the name of München and Freising in 1818, subsequent to the Concordat between Pius VII and King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria (5 June 1817).
An easy interpretation: the bear tamed by God's grace is the Bishop of Freising himself; the pack saddle is the burden of his Episcopate.
In the famous long iconographic series of medallions in St Paul's Basilica that portrays all the Popes of history (the earliest portrayals are idealized), many Supreme Pontiffs are shown wearing the pallium, especially those between the fifth and, 14th centuries.
www.ewtn.com /library/CHISTORY/armsb16.HTM   (2019 words)

  
 Pope Pius II :: Short life of Enea Silvio de' Piccolomini
Bishop and secretary arrived there in 1432, and joined the opposition to Pope Eugene IV.
The same year he succeeded in breaking up the Electors' League, equally dangerous to Eugene IV and Frederick III, and shortly afterwards a delegation, of which he was a member, laid before the pope the conditional submission of almost all Germany.
Not only was he constantly solicitous for the peace of Christendom against Islam, but he also instituted a commission for the reform of the Roman court, seriously endeavoured to restore monastic discipline, and defended the doctrine of the Church against the writings of Reginald Peacock, the former Bishop of Chichester.
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In 1180, with the trial of Henry the Lion, Otto I Wittelsbach became Duke of Bavaria and Munich was handed over to the bishop of Freising.
In 1806, it became the capital of the new Kingdom of Bavaria, with the state's parliament (the Landtag) and the new archdiocese of Munich and Freising being located in the city.
The current Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising on June 29, 1951.
campus.queens.edu /depts/english/munich.htm   (2764 words)

  
 Uniqueness in the heart of Europe - Freising Manuscripts 1.
They are part of a church codex – most probably used by the bishop of Freising himself - consisting of 169 pages and containing 70 items in Latin.
Joseph Docen found the manuscripts in 1806 in one of the volumes acquired by the Munich National Library from the nearby Freising Diocese.
The name Freising was translated into Slovenian as Brizzinj in 1854 and so the name Brizzinski spomeniki.
www.thezaurus.com /sloveniana/freising_manuscripts.htm   (727 words)

  
 Otto of Freising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He enjoyed the favour of Conrad's successor, Frederick I; was probably instrumental in settling the dispute over the duchy of Bavaria in 1156; was present at the famous diet at Besançon in 1157, and, still retaining the dress of a Cistercian monk, died at Morimond on 22 September 1158.
It was hoped this monarch would bring relief to the crusader states: this is the first documented mention of Prester John.
The Bishop is looking at the cathedral and city of Freising from the east bank of the Isar river.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_von_Freising   (809 words)

  
 AEI - Short Publications
Much can be gleaned from a first impression, and the eyes of the world are always upon the newly appointed bishop of Rome when he takes his first steps out onto the loggia to address the crowds, urbi et orbi.
Bishops have, of course, long wrestled with theologians; as early as 1277, Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, was compelled to restrain university theologians from replacing Christ with Aristotle.
Though this tension between authority and inquiry is actually quite creative, in an age that smirks at the idea of objective truth, it struck critics as needlessly heavy-handed.
www.aei.org /publications/pubID.22331,filter.all/pub_detail.asp   (831 words)

  
 Anbindung   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
From its beginnings in the 8th century, Freising´s Cathedral Hill was a centre of faith and culture, a seat of learning and throne of rulers in one.
The bishops of Freising were patrons of the arts, and believes that the arts and sciences also served to glorify God.
Otto was the uncle of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, shown on the Cathedral portal with his consort Beatrice, and also founded Neustift Pemonstratensian Monastery, which was rebuilt as a jewel of Bavarian rococo in the mid-18th century by artists such as Franz Xaver Feichtmayr, Johann Baptis Zimmermann and Ignaz Günther.
www.freising.de /tourismus/stadtbilder/en/Bil_Eng_s6.htm   (245 words)

  
 AMY BERK > WRITINGS > ESSAYS > HAGENAUER FAMILY
Fragments of wooden alterpieces for the abbey of Severn, commissioned by Bishop Albrecht of Strasbourg from Nicholas and his two brothers, also survive.
But perhaps more important is the tomb for Bishop Albrecht from 1493-5, now lost, which included an accurately sculpted skeleton, known through a woodcut, foreshadowing the mix of art and science of the Renaissance.
Nicholas's most important commission and legacy, however, are the great wood carvings for the altar in the Anthonite church at Isenheim, Alsace, known as the Isenheim altarpiece.
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 June 2005 Adoremus Bulletin Readers' Forum
Apparently “der Freisinger Mohr” first appeared on the arms of the Prince-Bishop of Freising around 1316 and remained thus until 1803, when Freising was absorbed into the Kingdom of Bavaria as part of the Napoleonic reorganization of the old Holy Roman Empire, and then became the coat of arms of the archdiocese of Munich-Freising.
The CDW was responding to Bishop Foley, who objected to “ad orientem” and had forbidden EWTN to telecast the Mass with the celebrant “facing East”.
In his letter to the CDW, Bishop Foley had stated that a priest had said that it was “more orthodox” to celebrate facing East.
www.adoremus.org /0605ReadersForum.html   (2905 words)

  
 The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
Priestly ordination was bestowed by the power of the Holy Spirit according to the sacramentally valid Roman Catholic rite through the laying on of hands by a bishop standing in the line of apostolic succession.
Censure cannot be imposed validly unless the accused has been warned at least once in advance that he or she should withdraw from contumacy and be given appropriate time for repentance.
The letters of the bishops bear the postmark July 11; they arrived July 15.
www.womenpriests.org /called/appeal.asp   (977 words)

  
 muenchen.de - Munich as planned
Munich was created as the result of a conflict between Duke Heinrich the Lion and Bishop Otto I of Freising.
The Bishops of Freising exercised their rights to ruler over Munich for several decades.
The Wittelsbach dukes were only gradually able to strengthen their position in Munich until 1240, when the bishop of Freising’s supremacy ended.
www.muenchen.de /Rathaus/plan/munich_as_planned/160827/section1.html   (1838 words)

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