Germanic Christianity - List of Missionaries

List of Missionaries

Christian Missionaries to Germanic peoples:

to the Goths

  • Ulfilas (Gothic, 341-383)

to the Lombards

  • Saint Severinus of Noricum (5th century)
    • Eugippus

to the Alamanni

  • Fridolin of Säckingen
  • Columbanus (Irish, 6th century)
    • Saint Gall

to the Anglo-Saxons (see Anglo-Saxon Christianity)

  • Liuhard of Canterbury (6th century)
  • Augustine of Canterbury (597-604)
    • Laurence of Canterbury
    • Mellitus
    • Justus
  • Chad of Mercia (7th century)
  • Saint Honorius (7th century)
  • Aidan of Lindisfarne (7th century)

to the Frankish Empire (see Hiberno-Scottish, Anglo-Saxon mission)

  • Saint Trudpert (Irish, 7th century)
  • Saint Rumbold
  • Saint Boniface (English, 8th century)
    • Saint Walpurga, Saint Willibald and Saint Winibald (English siblings assisting St Boniface)
  • Saint Wilfried
  • Saint Willibrord
  • Saint Willehad
  • Saint Lebuin
  • Saint Liudger
  • Saint Ewald
  • Saint Suitbert of Kaiserswerth
  • Saint Pirmin (8th century)
  • Charlemagne

to the Bavarians

  • Saint Corbinian (8th century)

to Scandinavia

  • Ansgar (9th century)
  • Adam of Bremen (11th century)

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