Vihone, also Wiho or Wicho (Frisia, around 772 - Osnabrück, April 20, 804 or 805) was the first bishop of Osnabrück bishopric in Lower Saxony, just created by Charlemagne. Biography modifies wikitesto
Of his life little is known and even on birth and death dates there are uncertainties. Native of Frisia, now in Holland, received his formation in Utrecht and was appointed bishop of Osnabrück by Charlemagne. During his bishopric, he founded the Osnabrück Foundation of one of the oldest German high schools, the Gymnasium Carolinum. Cultomodifies wikitesto Osnabruck's San Vion is remembered in the Roman Martyrology on April 20: "In Osnabrück in Saxony, nowadays Germany, St. Vion, bishop, who was born in Friesland, was sent by Charlemagne as the first abbot of this place to announce the Gospel and, later bishop of the Osnabrück Church, suffered a lot for Christ. "
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