Saint Brithwald of Canterbury

Also known as

• Beorhtweald
• Berctuald
• Bercthwald
• Beretuald
• Berhtwald
• Berthwald
• Bertwald
• Brihtwald

Memorial

• 9 January

Profile

Educated at Canterbury, England. Benedictine monk and then abbot of Reculver Abbey, Kent, England. Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey. Archbishop of Canterbury from 692 until his death nearly 40 years later. Correspondent of with Saint Boniface, Saint Aldhelm, and Saint Wilfrid of York. Assisted at the Synod of Nidd.

Born

• Anglo-Saxon

Died

• 731 of natural causes
• Saint Augustine’s abbey, Canterbury, England

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Brithwald of Canterbury“. Saints.SQPN.com. 8 January 2013. Web. 24 May 2013. <>