Poppo (bishop of Kraków)

Poppo was a Bishop of Krakow.[1]

He is considered to be the first Bishop of Kraków, although missionary Bishops were active in the years just prior to his bishopric. His name is known from the 13th century chronicle “Sede Vacante w krakowski” which lists the names of the first nine Bishops[2] and Thietmar of Merseburg, who wrote that three bishops, Reinberna, Bishop of Solno-Kołobrzeskiej, Poppona of Kraków and Jan I of Wroclaw were all subjected to Bishops of Gniezno metropolis.[3] He became Bishop around 1000AD and there is some speculation he was the same person as Gompon.[4] He died 1008AD. If he was Gompo, he was also Bishop of Kraków for the years 1008-1016AD. However, the early chronicles do give him his own entry.

Around the year 1004 a bishop of Kraków was deposed by the Papal Legate, Galon (Walon) bishop of Beauvais, because he refused to swear an oath to Pope Paschal II.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Piotr Biliński,Żywoty sławnych Biskupów Krakowskich PROHOR i PROKULF. Archived 2014-12-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ His name is third in that list.
  3. ↑ Józef Mitkowski, Kraków wczesnodziejowy in Celina Bobińska, Kraków i Małopolska przez dzieje, (Kraków 1970) p. 101.
  4. ↑ Piotr Biliński,Żywoty sławnych Biskupów Krakowskich PROHOR i PROKULF. Archived 2014-12-26 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ↑ Augustinus Theiner (ed.), Caesaris S. R. E. Baronius Annales Ecclesiastici Tomus octavusdecimus (Bar-le-Duc: Guerin ), p. 148, placing the mission to Poland in 1104.



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