Zoen Tencarari

Zoen Tencarari [Tancalari.; according to Girolamo Tiraboschi, "Storia della letteratura italiana" (1823), he was born c. 1200, and was named Giovanni.] was an Italian canon lawyer, papal vice-legate, and bishop of Avignon from 1240 to about 1261. He taught at the University of Bologna [ [http://faculty.cua.edu/Pennington/1140i-p.htm Relevance not found] ] , where in 1256 he founded a college. [ [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Universities "Encyclopaedia Britannica" 1911: "Universities" ] ] He glossed the "Compilatio quinta", and brought Henry of Segusio to the see of Sisteron [ [http://faculty.cua.edu/Pennington/1140d-h.htg/HOSTIENSIS.html Relevance not found] ] .

He was a strong opponent of the Albigensians [ [http://bulfinch.englishatheist.org/mm/inquisition/Chapter7.htm Henry Charles Lea , "A History of the Inquisition In The Middle Ages", 1888: ch. vii] ; [http://catholique-avignon.cef.fr/divers/histoire/nothist.htm "Église Catholique en Avignon": briefest mention as bishop of Avignon, 1241-1261.] ] . He presided at the Council of Albi of 1254.

He had work done to improve the residence of the bishops at Noves [ [http://pros.orange.fr/mairie.de.noves/tourisme/esplaa.html Noves website] ] .

References

*Léon-Honoré Labande (1908), "Avignon au 13eme siecle : l'eveque Zoen Tencarari et les Avignonnais"

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