Anselm of Meissen

Anselm of Meissen (* 1210, † 1278 in Elbing ) was a priest of the Teutonic Order and the Bishop of Warmia.

Life

Hailing from the countries of the crown of Bohemia, he is already occupied in 1245 as a priest of the Teutonic Order. Following the withdrawal of the Bishop of Warmia appointed, but did not enter into possession of the diocese of Henry of armed mountain OT mid- 1250 for the Bishop of Warmia appointed and on August 28, 1250 in Valenciennes (Flanders) by the papal legate Peter de Collemedio, Cardinal Bishop of Albano ( 1244-53 ) consecrated, it has been demonstrated since April 27, 1251 in his diocese.

Anselm was the first really came into office Warmia Bishop and carried out its basic organization. 1254 was the determination of the boundaries between the diocese country, the later so-called Warmia, and the land of the order. In Warmia Anselm was sovereign, in the land of the Order was to him only the spiritual jurisdiction. He chose Brown Mountain to the bishop's seat, raised the local church of St. Andrew in 1260 to the Cathedral and built a cathedral chapter with 16 members.

In 1261 he was appointed by Pope Urban IV, probably at the instigation of the Order, legate of Bohemia, Moravia and the ecclesiastical provinces of Gniezno, Riga and Salzburg. Anselm began in the diocese country with the settlement of German farmers from Lower Germany, Moravia and Silesia. This process was continued by the later bishops until the mid- 14th century. The German settlers and the native Prussians fused to the 16th century to a German-speaking population.

The long term Anselm was even in the years of the conquest of the land of Prussia by the Teutonic Order, to whose military campaigns he sometimes actively participated. So the crusade he took in 1255 of King Otakar II of Bohemia in part. However, in 1260 he had to flee like the other bishops with his cathedral chapter before the insurgent Prussians. At the time he took his seat in Reichenbach (Silesia ). At times he took before episcopal ordination actions in Olomouc and Wroclaw. It was not until 1277 he was able to return to his diocese. Died 1278 in Elbing, he has been buried according to tradition in the St. Anne's Chapel of the Elbląg castle.

On 3 July 2010, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and Abbot General Bruno Platter unveiled a memorial to Bishop Anselm on " Bischofsweg " Baldy ( Warmia ).