Eberhard I (archbishop of Salzburg)
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Eberhard was Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria.
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Saint Eberhard | |
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Archbishop of Salzburg | |
Born | Nuremberg, Germany |
Died | 1164 Rein Abbey, Gratwein, Styria, Austria |
Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
Feast | 22 June |
Eberhard was born to a noble family of Nuremberg, Germany; he became a Benedictine in 1125 at Pruffening, Germany. Later he was made Abbot of Biburg near Regensburg. In 1146 Pope Innocent II appointed him Archbishop of Salzburg.[1]
He rose to fame as a mediator when Pope Alexander III was faced with the controversy surrounding the Papal election of 1159, created by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa who supported antipope Victor IV. Although Archbishop Eberhard I, Count of Hippoldstein, steadily supported Alexander, Barbarossa left him in peaceful possession of his see.[2]
Eberhard was one of the most able of the prelates of his age.[1] He died in 1164, at the age of seventy-nine, returning from another peace keeping mission.[3]