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Berno of Schwerin
Berno was a Cistercian monk who became the first bishop of Schwerin, appointed under Henry the Lion around 1160 to convert the Obotrites. He founded churches and monasteries in Mecklenburg, among them Doberan Abbey in 1171, and laid the foundations of the Church among the Slavs of the region.
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