Olegarius

Oleguer Bonestruga (* around 1060 in Barcelona, † March 6, 1137 ) was Bishop of Barcelona and Archbishop of Tarragona. His remains are interred in the Chapel of Christ of Lepanto in the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Commemoration of the Holy Oleger is his death on March 6.

Life and work

Oleguer Bonestruga was born the son of a noble family in Barcelona. His father was a high official of Ramon Berengar I, Count of Barcelona. His mother came from the Guilia Gothic nobility.

Before he became bishop of Barcelona, ​​he was chairman of the canon of Barcelona, ​​Sant Adrià de Besòs Sant and the monastery reputation with Avinyó. He founded the collegiate church of Santa Maria in Terrassa. During the tenure of Pope Paschal II, he was appointed in 1116 Mauguio, the main town of the former county Melgueil in southern France, as bishop of Barcelona. In 1118 he traveled to Rome to Pope Gelasius II new.

After the conquest of Tarragona from the Moors in 1118, he was appointed Archbishop of Tarragona, without losing his episcopal ministry in Barcelona. From then on, he worked as Metropolitan with all rights and additionally received as diocesan administrator has not yet regained the diocese of Tortosa.

As consultants and employees of the Count Ramon Berengar III. and Ramon Berenguer IV, he had a considerable political influence. He was instrumental in the revival of the Roman Church and gained greater independence from the secular rulers. In the new areas of the Camp de Tarragona but this led to violent conflicts with the local Count Robert d' Aguiló.

He took among others in the council at Rheims ( 1119 ) and the First Lateran Council (1123) part. As an ambassador of Pope Innocent II, he met in 1130 at the Council of Clermont in Bernard of Clairvaux. His language skills eventually led to the excommunication of Pope Anacletus counter.

He played a special role in December 1134 when he mediated a peace between Ramiro II of Aragon and Alfonso VII of Castile in Zaragoza.

Ologuer was canonized in 1675. This makes it clear how much his work and his fame among the people and the church was still present centuries after his death.

  • Saint (12th century)
  • Roman Catholic Bishop ( 12th Century )
  • Bishop of Tarragona
  • Bishop of Barcelona
  • Born in the 11th century
  • Died in 1137
  • Man
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