Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download. Tenth Bishop of Paderborn , d. In early youth he was dedicated by his parents to serve God in the priesthood. He began his secular and ecclesiastical studies at the church of St.
Stephen in Halberstadt and finished them at the cathedral school of Hildesheim , where he had as schoolmate St. Henry II, who greatly esteemed him, named him Bishop of Paderborn , for the express purpose of raising the financial condition of the impoverished church.
For twenty-seven years he laboured with restless energy and zeal , and deserves the title of second founder of the diocese. His cathedral and a large portion of Paderborn had been destroyed by a conflagration in ; he rebuilt the cathedral on a much grander scale and consecrated it on 15 Sept.
He employed Greek workmen to build the chapel of St. Bartholomew, which was considered a work of art. In he founded the Abbey of Abdinghof, for which he obtained thirteen Benedictine monks from the Abbey of Cluny.
Between the years - 36, he established the collegiate church for canons-regular at Bussdorf. He built an episcopal palace and new walls for the city. He divided his diocese into parishes , caused the erection of many churches and chapels , held frequent visitations, insisted on a clerical life among his priests , observance of rules in the monasteries , and was much interested, not only in the spiritual welfare of his subjects, but also in their temporal well-being, for which he introduced improved methods in agriculture, etc.
