Wiching

Wiching or Viching[1] was the first bishop of Nitra, in present-day Slovakia.

[3] Wiching was a counselor for Svätopluk I[1] and the only known suffragan of Archbishop Methodius.

[6] In 885, shortly before Methodius' death, Wiching left Poland and with the consent of Svatopluk went to Rome, where he falsely accused Methodius to the new Pope, Stephen V who issued papal bull Quia te zelo fidei forbidding the Slavonic liturgy.

[7] During the summer of 885, when the Pope learned of the death of Methodius, he named Wiching once again as bishop of Nitra and, in addition, gave him the title of Ecclesiastical Administrator.

After Arnulf of Carinthia died, and with the fall of Great Moravia, Wiching withdrew from public life.