Zoen TencarariTancalari.; according to Girolamo Tiraboschi, Storia della letteratura italiana (1823), he was born c. 1200, and was named Giovanni. was an Italian canon lawyer, papal vice-legate, and bishop of Avignon from 1240 to about 1261. He taught at the University of Bologna,Relevance not found where in 1256, he founded a college. He glossed the Compilatio quinta, and brought Henry of Segusio to the see of Sisteron.Relevance not found
He was a strong opponent of the Albigensians.Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition In The Middle Ages, 1888: ch. vii; "Église Catholique en Avignon": briefest mention as bishop of Avignon, 1241-1261. He presided at the Council of Albi of 1254.
He had work done to improve the residence of the bishops at Noves.Noves website
References
Notes Léon-Honoré Labande (1908), Avignon au 13eme siecle : l'eveque Zoen Tencarari et les Avignonnais