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[[File:Reinbern, bp Kolobrzeg.jpg|thumb|Reinbern]]
'''Reinbern''' (died 1013 or 1015) was the only bishop of the short-lived [[Diocese of Kołobrzeg]] (1000 – {{circa|1007}}).

Reinbern was born in the [[Hassegau]] area of the medieval [[Duchy of Saxony]].<ref name="Warner">David Warner, ''Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg'', Manchester University Press, 2001, p.358, {{ISBN|0-7190-4926-1}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7190-4926-2}}</ref> When [[Holy Roman Emperor]] [[Otto III]] met with his friend, the Polish duke [[Boleslaus I of Poland|Boleslaw I]] in the [[Congress of Gniezno]] (Gnesen), the [[Archbishopric of Gniezno]] was founded.<ref name="Borgolte"/><ref name="Berend"/> One of Gniezno's subordinated bishoprics was the [[Diocese of Kołobrzeg]].,<ref name="Borgolte">Michael Borgolte, Benjamin Scheller, ''Polen und Deutschland vor 1000 Jahren: Die Berliner Tagung über den"akt von Gnesen"'', Akademie Verlag, 2002, p.282, {{ISBN|3-05-003749-0}}, {{ISBN|978-3-05-003749-3}}</ref><ref name="Berend">Nora Berend, ''Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' C. 900-1200'', Cambridge University Press, 2007, p.293, {{ISBN|0-521-87616-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-521-87616-2}}</ref><ref name="Wille"/> Its purpose was to advance the [[Christianization]] of the pagan [[Pomeranians (Slavic tribe)|Pomeranians]] that shortly before had been subdued by the Poles. Reinbern was made bishop.<ref name="Berend"/><ref name="Wille"/> It is documented that he "baptized" the [[Baltic Sea]] by spilling [[Chrism|Holy Oil]] and [[Holy Water]] into the sea. He also demolished shrines of pagan gods in Pomerania.<ref name="Warner"/><ref name="Wille">Michael Müller-Wille, ''Rom und Byzanz im Norden: Mission und Glaubenswechsel im Ostseeraum während des 8.-14. Jahrhunderts: internationale Fachkonferenz der deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Verbindung mit der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz: Kiel, 18.-25. 9. 1994'', 1997, p.105, {{ISBN|3-515-07498-8}}, {{ISBN|978-3-515-07498-8}}</ref> Yet, after his bishopric was driven out during a pagan uprising, he returned to Boleslaw's court. In 1009, he accompanied Boleslaw to the marriage arranged between Boleslaw's daughter and [[Sviatopolk I of Kiev|Sviatopolk]], the [[prince of Turov]] in [[Kievan Rus']],<ref name=Vlasto>A. P. Vlasto, ''Entry of Slavs Christendom'', CUP Archive, 1970, p. 275, {{ISBN|0-521-07459-2}}</ref> where an internal crisis involving Boleslaw's daughter led to the arrest of Reinbern by [[Vladimir the Great|Vladimir I]].<ref name="Wille"/> Soon afterwards, he died imprisoned in 1012.<ref name="Wille"/><ref name=Vlasto/>

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[[Category:History of Pomerania]]
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