Blessed Conrad of Urach
- Memorial
- 30 September
- Profile
- Priest.
Canon of the church of Saint Lambert, the cathedral of Liège, when a young man.
Cistercian monk at Villers, Belgium in 1199.
Prior of Villers.
Abbot of Villers in 1209.
Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Rufina.
Abbot of Clairvaux in 1214.
Abbot of Citeaux in 1217.
General of the Cistercians.
Created cardinal by Pope Honorius III on 8 January 1219.
Papal legate to France from 1220 to 1223.
Ordered to suppress the Albigenses in France.
Preached Crusade in Germany in from 1224 to 1226.
Chosen pope at the death of Honorius III, but he declined the throne.
- Born
- c.1180
- Died
- 1227
- Name Meaning
- bold in counsel (Teutonic)
- Additional Information
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Catholic Encyclopedia
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