Berthold of Chiemsee

He was licentiate in civil, and doctor in ecclesiastical law, and in 1495 he appears as the Magister Cameræ of the Archbishop of Salzburg, and in 1508 was appointed Bishop of Chiemsee.

During his episcopal career (1508–25), he resided at Salzburg, in the position of Coadjutor bishop to the archbishop of the latter place.

He was present at the Provincial Council of Salzburg (1512), and also took an active part in 1522 in that of Mühldorf (Bavaria), which was convened to devise means of stemming the tide of Lutheran progress.

At the suggestion of Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, the Cardinal Archbishop of Salzburg (1519–40), he wrote his Tewtsche Theologey (German Theology – Munich, 1528) and translated it afterwards into Latin Augsburg, 1531).

The other writings of Berthold were: (1) Tewtsch Rational, a treatise on the Mass; (2) Keligpuchel, a defence of the Catholic doctrine and practice of Communion under one kind, against the Reformers; (3) Onus Ecclesiæ or "Burden of the Church" (Landshut, 1524) is also generally attributed to him.