Witta of Büraburg

Witta of Büraburg ( Anglo-Saxon Hwita, that is, " the White ", also Wizo, Vito, Wittanus, Wintanus, and Latinized Vito Albuin, Vitus Albuinus or Albinus of Büraburg ) (* about 700 in Wessex; † after 760 on the Büraburg ) was 741-755 Bishop of Büraburg at Fritzlar in northern Hesse.

Life

Witta was Anglo-Saxon origin and one of the early Christian missionaries in the Hesse -Thuringia room. He was a disciple and companion of St. Boniface and friend of Lull. After the establishment of the mission diocese Büraburg by Boniface in 741 Witta was the first bishop there. Simultaneously with him appointed Boniface, the first bishops of the dioceses he created Würzburg ( Burkard ) and Erfurt ( Adalar )

742 assisted Witta and Bishop Burkard von Würzburg in aspic bridges ( Thuringia) Boniface at the consecration Willi Balds, who soon afterwards the bishopric of Eichstätt founded and its first bishop was. Witta took in April 742 in the Frankish house Meier Carloman convened ( on a no longer known today city) and of Boniface led Concilium Germanicum, a reform Synod of the East Frankish bishops, and in March, 743 participated in the also convened by Carloman Synod of Estinnes.

The papal confirmation Wittas as a bishop took place on April 1 743 by Pope Zacharias, who Wittas Sprengel, made his consecration and his office under special apostolic protection.

In the year 755 the bishopric was Büraburg, as well as that of Erfurt from Lull the Diocese (later Archdiocese ) Mainz incorporated to thus prevent a further extension of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz on the east by the two dioceses would be prevented.

Witta lived until his death after 760 more on the Büraburg and was later buried in the chapel of Sturmius in Hersfeld, which made Lull in 769 to the base of the local new Benedictine monastery.

Wittas name-day is October 26.

Falsely successor presumption

In the older literature sometimes Megingaud (also Megingoz or Megingotus ) is mentioned as Wittas successor, sometimes called Chorbishop ( " episcopus missus "), a particularly entrusted with mission tasks Bishop of no fixed headquarters. This claim is probably based on a misunderstood place in the " Vita S. Wigberti " of lupus Servatus, where it is said that Wigberts friend, the deacon Megingoz, have afterwards attained the episcopal dignity. Megingaud was 754 but not successor Wittas in Büraburg, but followers of Burchard Bishop of Würzburg.