Otto of Bamberg depicted in a Romanesque fresco, Prüfening Abbey, c. 1130
Bishop and Confessor; Apostle of Pomerania
Born
c. 1060 Mistelbach, Franconia(?)
Died
30 June 1139 Bamberg, Franconia
Venerated in
Catholic Church
Canonized
1189, Rome by Pope Clement III
Major shrine
Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany
Feast
2 July
Otto of Bamberg (1060 or 1061 – 30 June 1139) was a German missionary and papal legate who converted much of medieval Pomerania to Christianity. He was the bishop of Bamberg from 1102 until his death. He was canonized in 1189.
OttoofBamberg (1060 or 1061 – 30 June 1139) was a German missionary and papal legate who converted much of medieval Pomerania to Christianity. He was...
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paganism to Christianity by Otto von Bamberg in 1124 and 1128 (Duchy of Pomerania), and in 1168 by Absalon (Principality of Rügen). Earlier attempts at...
combined presence of trees and springs, according to the description of one such sites in Szczecin by OttoofBamberg. A shrine of the same type in Kobarid...
when writing the Life of St Burchard. It was here that Ekkehard met OttoofBamberg, who would later go on to found the monastery of Aura and install Ekkehard...
presence of Svarozhit's sacred white horse. Other evidence of Slavic hippomancy dates back to the eleventh century. The two Vitae ofOttoofBamberg contain...
The diocese was rooted in the Conversion of Pomerania by OttoofBamberg in 1124 and 1128 at the behest of Polish ruler Bolesław III Wrymouth, and was...
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hagiographies ofOttoofBamberg, who led Christianization missions among the Polabian Slavs and Pomeranians: in 1151 Life of Saint Otto, Bishop ofBamberg by the...
him out of town. Bernard was later made the first bishop of Lubusz in Poland. After Bernard's misfortune, Boleslaw III asked OttoofBamberg to convert...
the party, but the Strasserist programme was defeated at the Bamberg Conference of 1926. Otto Strasser, along with Gregor, continued as a leading Left Nazi...
12th-century biography of the proselytizing German bishop OttoofBamberg, who, during his expeditions to convert the pagan tribes of Wendish and Polabian...
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task to Otto of Bamberg, and in 1128 the Slavic Pomeranian Duke Wartislaw I was converted to Christianity through the efforts ofOtto. In 1155 the Premonstratensians...
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succeeded him as Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg. The Ascanians pursued a policy of expanding to the east and the northeast with the goal of connecting their...
area along with the Duchy of Pomerania under Wartislaw I. The tribe was subsequently Christianized, missionary OttoofBamberg celebrated the first mass...
vitae ofOttoofBamberg were written using the name Julin for the medieval place located at the site of the later town of Wolin. 1163/1168, Helmold of Bosau...
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