Otgar of Mainz information

Otgar (died 21 April 847), also spelled Odgar or Otger, was the archbishop of Mainz from 826 until his death. In 834, Archbishop Otgar made a pilgrimage...

nobleman Otgar of Mainz, archbishop (826–847) Otgar [de], bishop of Eichstätt (847–880) Hoger (died 906), abbot and music theorist Otgar, founding abbot of...

centuries bestowed by the Holy See upon metropolitans and primates as a symbol of their conferred jurisdictional authorities, and still remains a papal emblem...

officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Latin: Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic religious order of the Catholic...

bones together with those of his wife Vincentia and daughter Innocentia and brought them to Pavia. In 836 Bishop Otgar of Mainz acquired the relics and...

834, Archbishop Otgar of Mainz made a pilgrimage to the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. Upon his return he brought some of the relics of Justinus. He built...

monastery of St Petersberg. In 847 Rabanus was constrained to return to public life when he was elected to succeed Otgar as Archbishop of Mainz. He died...

prefatory material mentions that Archbishop Otgar of Mainz has died; the preface must thus postdate 847 (Otgar died 21 April, 847). Earlier scholars applied...

The Bishop of Speyer is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer, which is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Bamberg. The diocese covers...

Papal appointment was a medieval method of selecting the Pope. Popes have always been selected by a council of Church fathers; however, Papal selection...

(also Otachar or Otgar) was a Frankish nobleman. He served Pippin III as a diplomat in 753 and followed Carloman I after the division of the kingdom in...

Antipope Leo VIII who finds refuge at the court of Otto I. John dispatches a delegation under Otgar, bishop of Speyer, to negotiate an agreement. May 14 –...