Bernard of Hildesheim

Bernhard I († July 20, 1154 in Walshausen near Hildesheim ) was 1130-1153 ( resignation ) Bishop of Hildesheim.

Bernhard I was made ​​head of the Hildesheim Cathedral School. At the beginning of his tenure as bishop, he founded the monastery of the Augustinian Canons or choir women in hell. Through personal visits with Pope Innocent II in Liège and at the Council of Reims in 1131, he led the canonization of Bishop of Hildesheim Godehard to an end. He then in 1133 founded the Godehardikloster in Hildesheim. 1135 was the consecration of the monastery Amelungsborn by Bishop Bernard. 1142 he called together all episcopal feudatories to the court day in Goslar, the opposition against King Conrad III. to strengthen. In 1148 he settled by Reinald of Dassel, the future Archbishop of Cologne, represented at the Council of Reims. In the former imperial free Kanonissenstift Ringelsheim, the Konrad III. 1150 the Bishop of Hildesheim chair handed, he founded with monks from St. Michael, a Benedictine abbey.

Bernhard I was buried in the St. Godehard Basilica in Hildesheim. Soon after his death, he was worshiped in the city and pin Hildesheim Seliger. His feast day, July 20, until the 18th century was a public holiday. To date, he is self- liturgical commemoration of St. Godehard Basilica.