Vrolinus Westfal being administrator. 24. Benedict, Bohemian baron of Waldstein, canon at < llmiltz ( l 186 - I Incouraged by him. Andrew, abbot ofMichaels- te m 1 187 tin- life of St. I mi., in
Latin. In < tctober, 1 192, a -y 1 mel at Stargard. 25.
.Martin Carith, from Colberg, archdeacon at Arenswalde (1499 1521), resided at Coslin; accompanied, in 1496 I islav X t.i th,' Holy Laud: held Oct.5, 1500, a Bynod in the church of St. Mary at Stettin; and or- dered tin- synodal statutes and the Breviary to be print- ed, 1505. He died Nov. 26, 1521, at Stettin. 26. Eras- Manteufel, the last Catholic bishop of Kainmin. died in his mansion al Bast, -Ian. 27, 1544.
II. Introduction of Protestantism. The duke Barnim,
\\\v> had studied at Wittenberg during the firsl effer-
Ri ' rmation 1 1518 1520), and who had
i. rector of the university, took in hand
thi t with his elder brother
it 1523, and favored Protestantism. George,
named with the old Church, died
on Philip followed hi- uncle's i
trav< lied through Pomerania,
Mity of returning to the
ese apostles of the
of Rhoda, fr Mansfeld, who
n Amandus, who exerted him- Ipe, Stettin, and filially •
' I liron ; John Kniepstrow,
ttin, <ir. ifswaldc. and Stralsui
i; i, Christian
Kettclhodt, and John Kurckc, al Stralsund. \i the
the wars ol the i easants, Pon • i una was no)
exempt from i ivil a .! troubles, and
bloody ri,,i:, took place, especially at Stettin and Stral-
sund. The bishop Erasmus von Afanteufel invited his clergy to assemble at Stargard Aug. 20, 1525, in order to deliberate on the measures by which the progress of the Reformation could be Btopped. The princes, t" ac- complish the ecclesiastical revolution, convoked a diet al Treptow Dec, 13, 1534, and invited the chapters thereto. with the threatening remark that, whether they attended or not, the resolutions should be law for i hem in any case. The bishop, i he abbots, prelates, and a considerable part of the nobility, protested against the resolutions of the diet, and retired before its close. The remainder of the assembly declared for the Reformation. Bugenhagen composed a liturgy, and Erasmus was of- fered, if he would submit to the decision of the diet, to re- main the chief of the new Church, and to preserve his dignity and the possessions connected with it: but he declined. < Inly a tenth of the monasterii - was spared : the nunneries of Marienfliess, Stolpe, Bergen, Kammin, and ( lolberg— and these also had to undergo gri at modi- fications. Almost all the monks left the country. Care was taken, however, of those whom old age kept hack; the younger monks were sent to Wittenberg, to study- there at public expense, and those who were willing to marry were similarly assisted. After Erasmus's death, the two dukes could not at first agree on the choice of his successor. At last Bartholomew Swawe, Bamim's chancellor, united both suffrages. He was ordained, and invested in 1545 by three superintendents, in the pres- ence of seven ministers; but pari of the clergy, object- ing to his being a married man. complained al the court ol' Charles V", and obtained iii 1548 a decree of suspen- sion. Bartholomi w in this distress sent a pn lati . Mar- tin Weiher, to pope Paul III, in order to obtain the papal continual ion. The bishop's legate came hack with let- ters from the apostolic legate and from the emperor, by which the chapter was empowered to elect Martin him- self. Weiher was elected, and .Julius III confirmed his election by a brief of Oct 13, 1551. Bui Oct. 24, I552,he was inaugurated again, this time according to the Prot- estant rite. After Martin's death, the princes, to avoid the difficulties resulting from further elections, deter- mined to establish in the episcopal set ly members of
the ducal house. This noble family i ii was five centuries old) was condemned to early extinction : in a period of a few years six princes died without posterity. Bogi- slav XIV. the last ol them, by his alliance wiih Gus- tavus Adolphus, who succeeded in making himself the master of Pomerania, had so exhausted all his resources that his funeral ceremonies could be celebrated only seventeen years after his death, which occurred in 1G37. His nephew, son of his sister, Ernsl Bogislav, duke of Croy, had sold the bishopric of Kammin to Frederick William, elector of Brandenburg ( 1650). But, if we except the episcopal election, everything remained un- changed. See Milman. Miislav, or th Conversion of Ponn rania 1 1854 I. The history of Pomerania after this hum is clearly Protestant, and will be treated in the art. Prussia (q.v. i.
Pomeranus. See Bdgenhagi s.
Pomeiius, Juliantjs, a noted Spanish prelate, flourished in the latter part of the 7th century as archbishop of Toledo, about A.l>. 680 690, while Spain was still under the dominion of the Goths, before the Saracen invasion. That he was of Jewish extraction
may he seen fr what Mariana (vi, 18) -ays of him :
"Brat Julian us eruditionis laude ea setate Celebris, ut ejus lit ■ r i testantur. l'uit ex Judteorum sanguine prog- natus, Eugenii tertii discipulus, Quirini Toletani Pne- i is facili, copioso, -ua\ i. probitatis opinione singulari." Great praise is awarded to him by the historians of thai period, especially for hi- writings and labors as a bishop. He look pan in the greal raon- othelite disputes ofhis time concerning the twofold will of Christ a question on which this bishop, or rather il ol loiedo. al which he presided, declared quite independently of the bishop of Koine: -Nobis