Peter II Nowak

Ascent to the Bishop

Peters birth and origin are not known. 1430 he taught as a professor at the University of Vienna, where he had previously studied canon law and earned the degree of Doctor decretorum. After his return to Silesia, he was a canon in Wroclaw and soon acquired numerous high offices. He was:

Bishop of Breslau

After the death of Bishop Konrad von Breslau Oels the chapter voted on September 5, 1447 Peter Nowag his successor. Previously, a so-called capitulation was concluded, in which the rights and obligations of the future bishop and the cathedral chapter were defined. After the election of the archbishop of Gniezno was confirmed was made on October 22, 1447 episcopal ordination. The election was, however, criticized by Pope Nicholas V, because of failure to first obtain his consent. After imposition of various penalties he confirmed it on June 7, 1448 but still.

Peter tried to raise the religious life of his diocese and the discipline of the clergy. He held several diocesan synods and let John of Capistrano in Wroclaw preach against the Hussites and unbelievers.

Since taking office by the ravages of Hussiteneinfälle the financial circumstances of the diocese were shattered, he made ​​great efforts to improve them. He sparked mortgaged church property and built during his tenure the debt largely from.

His political stance as Breslau Bishop and Prince of Neisse was a prohabsburgische. He campaigned for the recognition of King Ladislaus Postumus and mediated in the intra- Silesian conflict.

He was buried in Wrocław Cathedral. The epitaph, which probably Breslauer Rotgießer Jost created diving, shows him in full bishop's robes.