Cunerus Petri (ca. 1530–1580) was the first bishop of Leeuwarden to take possession of the see.J. De Jong, "Cunerus Petri", in ''

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'', vol. 5 (Leiden, 1921), 122-124. He was nominated in succession to Remi Drieux, who had been unable to do so before being translated to the position of

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Life

Petri was born around 1530 in Duivendijke, near Brouwershaven in the

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. He studied Philosophy and Theology at Leuven University, graduating with a doctorate in Theology on 12 November 1560. He was named bishop of Leeuwarden in 1569, and was installed 1570. On 26 February 1570 he published the decrees of the

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in his diocese, and on 15 April held a diocesan synod. In December 1576 the States of the Lordship of Friesland subscribed to the

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. On 28 March 1578 Petri was imprisoned by the rebels in Harlingen. Upon his release he sought refuge in Germany, dying in

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on 15 February 1580.

Works

*''Een seker bewijs vanden vaghevier'' (Leuven, Rutger Velpius, 1566)
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*''Tractaet vant hoochwaerdich sacrament des aultaers'' (Leuven, Rutger Velpius, 1567)
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*''De Christiani Principis Officio'' (Cologne, Maternus Cholinus, 1579
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Petri, Cunerus 1530s births 1580 deaths 16th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Holy Roman Empire People from Schouwen-Duiveland Academic staff of the Old University of Leuven Academic staff of the University of Cologne