The ducatus Curiensis (or duchy of Chur) corresponded more or less with the diocese of the same name (dioecesis Curiensis) at the time of Tello, who had control over both.

Tello (died 24 September probably 765) was the Bishop of Chur from 758/759 until his death. Events 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina. Events By Topic Religion Papal privileges are restored in Beneventino and Tuscany (and partly in Spoleto) The Bishop of Chur (German Bischof von Chur) is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chur, Grisons, Switzerland He was the last member of the ecclesiastical dynasty of the Victorids to wield power in Rhaetia through his control of the bishopric. The Victorids ( Romansh: Zaccons) was a powerful family in Rhaetia during the seventh and eighth centuries, dominating the region politically Raetia (so always in inscriptions classical manuscripts usually use the form Rhaetia) was a province of the Roman Empire, bounded on the west by the country His will is one of the earliest surviving records from Graubünden and is an important source for the history of Rhaetia in the eighth century. Graubünden or Grisons ( German:, gʁaʊˈbyndən Italian: Grigioni; Romansh: Grischun) is the largest and easternmost

According to his will, dated 15 December 765, and the Liber de feodis of 1388, he was a son of Victor, the praeses of Rhaetia, and his wife Teusenda. Events 533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Events By Topic Religion Papal privileges are restored in Beneventino and Tuscany (and partly in Spoleto) Praeses (plural Praesides) a Latin word meaning "Seated in front i It is also mentioned in the will that he had brothers and sisters, though they are left unnamed. His episcopate can be demonstrated from 759 and he held, concurrently, the title of praeses, which had been his father's. He thus held both the spiritual and the temporal authority in the province.

He is mentioned in the Vita sancti Galli of Walafrid Strabo under the year 759 or 760. Walafrid, alternatively spelt Walahfrid, surnamed Strabo (or Strabus, i In 762 he participated in the Council of Attigny on the Aisne as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mainz. Aisne (ɛn is a department in the northern part of France named after the Aisne River. The Archbishopric of Mainz (Erzbistum Mainz or Electorate of Mainz (Kurfürstentum Mainz or Kurmainz) was an influential ecclesiastic and secular Prince-bishopric His signature appears on the conciliar documents. Tello is elsewhere documented in the Verbrüderungsbuch (fraternity book) of the Abbey of Reichenau. Reichenau Island lies in Lake Constance in southern Germany, at approximately. He began the construction of the cathedral, which has an unusual crypt and was renovated in the Romanesque style. Regional characteristics of Romanesque architecture|Romanesque art Romanesque architecture is the term that is used to describe the architecture of Middle Ages Europe which

His death date is secured as 24 September, but the year is unknown, probably the same year as that of his will, which was dated to December. He bequeathed his extensive landed and movable wealth, which was concentrated in the lower Surselva between Flims and Trun, to Disentis Abbey, with which he had had close ties. Surselva is an administrative district in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Flims (Flem is a municipality in the district of Imboden in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Trun is a municipality in the district of Surselva in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. Disentis Abbey ( Kloster or Reichskloster Disentis) is a Benedictine monastery in the Canton of Graubünden in eastern Switzerland,

Sources

• Wenneker, Eric. "TELLO, Bischof von Chur" in the Biographisch-Bibliographischen Kirchenlexikon, Vol. IX (1996), pp 644–646.