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Ansgar (8 September 801 – 3 February 865), also known as Anskar, [4] Saint Ansgar, Saint Anschar or Oscar, was Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen in the northern part of the Kingdom of the East Franks. Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North" because of his travels and the See of Hamburg received the missionary mandate to bring ...
The Vita Ansgarii, also known as the Vita Anskarii, is the hagiography of saint Ansgar, written by Rimbert, his successor as archbishop in the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen. [1] The Vita is an important source not only in detailing Ansgar's Scandinavian missionary work, but also in its descriptions of the everyday lives of people during the ...
The earliest signs of Christianization were in the 830s with Ansgar's construction of churches in Birka and Hedeby. [1] The conversion of Scandinavian kings occurred over the period 960–1020. [ 1 ] Subsequently, Scandinavian kings sought to establish churches, dioceses and Christian kingship, as well as destroy pagan temples. [ 1 ]
Ansgar and his assistant, the monk Witmar, followed with a convoy of merchants, but halfway they were attacked by vikings, and had to reach Birka on foot. Archbishop Ansgar, sometimes called the "Apostle of the North", arrived in the town of Birka on an island in Lake Mälaren in 829 from the Archbishopric of Bremen , and founded ostensibly the ...
Ansgar (801–865), archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen; Bernard Gilpin (1517–1583), English cleric; Hyacinth of Poland (c.1185–1257), Polish priest; John Macdonald (Apostle of the North) (1779–1849), minister of the Church of Scotland The Apostle of the North, a biography of Macdonald by John Kennedy of Dingwall
Rimbert continued much of the missionary work that had begun under Ansgar, despite the lack of royal or papal support for the missionary effort. [3] As Archbishop, he maintained the poorhouse in Bremen that had been established by Ansgar and founded a monastery at Bücken. [3] He also continued to preach to the Danes at Hedeby. [1]