Saint Ethelhard of Canterbury
- Also known as
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Æthelheard of Canterbury
Æthilheard of Canterbury
Aethelheard of Canterbury
Aethilheard of Canterbury
Ethelreard of Canterbury
- Memorial
- 12 May
- Profile
- Abbot, probably of Louth, Lincolnshire, England.
May have been bishop of Winchester, England.
Fourteenth Archbishop of Canterbury, consecrated on 21 July 793.
Elected to the see at a time when Mercian King Offa was trying to weaken Canterbury's influence.
Ethelhard had to flee from his see for a while, but when Cenwulf succeeded in Mercia, they worked together to restore the rights of Canterbury, a matter finally settled in 802.
Had Offa succeeded, his policy would not only have affected the Church, it would have seriously slowed the unification of England.
Ethelhard convened the synod of Clovesho in 803, which resulted in a requirement of a pledge obedience by new bishops to their superior.
- Died
- 12 May 805 at Canterbury, England of natural causes;
buried in the Canterbury cathedral
- Canonized
- Pre-Congregation
- Additional Information
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New Catholic Dictionary
Antiochian Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Britannia Biographies
Catholic Encyclopedia, by Edward Myers
For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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