RUPERT (HRODBERT), ST
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RUPERT (HRODBERT), ST , according to the Gesta Sancti Hrodberti, which dates from the 9th century, was a kinsman of the Merovingian house , and bishop of Worms under Childebert III. (695-711). At the invitation of th! duke of Bavaria, Theodo II., Rupert went to Regensburg (Ratisbon), where he began his apostolate. He founded the church See Also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
of St Peter near the Wallersee, and subsequently, at Salzburg, the church See Also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
of St Peter, together with a monastery and a dwelling for the clerks, as well as a convent for women " in superiori castro Iuvavensium." He died and was buried at Salzburg. He is regarded as the apostle of the Bavarians, not that the land was up to that time altogether heathen , but because of his services in the promotion and consolidation of its Christianity.
See Bibliotheca hagiographica Latina (Brussels, 1899), n. 73907403; W. Levison, " Die alteste Lebensbeschreibung Ruperts von Salzburg " in Neues Archiv fur aeltere deutsche Geschichtskunde, xxviii. 283 seq.; Hauck, Kirchengeschichte Deutschlands (3rd ed.), i. 372 seq. (H. DE.)
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