Saint Eberhard | |
|---|---|
| Archbishop of Salzburg | |
| Born | Nuremberg, Germany |
| Died | 1164 Rein Abbey, Gratwein, Styria, Austria |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Feast | 22 June |
Eberhard was Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria.
Eberhard was born to a noble family of Nuremberg, Germany; he became a Benedictine in 1125 at Pruffening, Germany. Later he was made Abbot of Biburg near Regensburg. In 1146 Pope Innocent II appointed him Archbishop of Salzburg.[1]
He rose to fame as a mediator when Pope Alexander III was faced with the controversy surrounding the Papal election of 1159, created by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa who supported antipope Victor IV. Eberhard was one of the most able of the prelates of his age.[1] He died in 1164, at the age of seventy-nine, returning from another peace keeping mission.[2]
Notes
- 1 2 Monks of Ramsgate. "Eberhard". Book of Saints 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 21 November 2012
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ St. Eberbard Catholic Online
Eberhard II (1240), archbishop of Salzburg, affirmed that the Pope was the antichrist. “Stated at a synod of bishops held at Regensburg in 1240 that the people of his day were “accustomed” to calling the pope antichrist.” (LeRoy Edwin Froom, The Prophetic Faith of our Fathers)