Willehad

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Willehad or Willihad (

Upon his return from Rome, Willehad retired for a time to the monastery of Echternach, in present-day Luxembourg. He spent two years there reassembling his missionary team.

After Charlemagne's conquest of the Saxons, Willehad preached in the region around the lower Elbe and the lower Weser. In 787 Willehad was consecrated bishop, and that part of Saxony and Friesland near the mouth of the Weser was assigned to him for his diocese. He chose as his see the city of Bremen, which is mentioned for the first time in documents of 782, and built a cathedral there. Praised for its beauty by Anschar, it was dedicated in 789.^[5]

Willehad died in Blexen upon Weser, today a part of

• Saint Willehad, patron saint archive

References

Sources

• McKitterick, Rosamond (1983). The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751–987. London: Longman.

External links

• Willehad 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
• Saint of the Day, November 8: Willehad of Bremen at SaintPatrickDC.org
• Willehad at Patron Saints Index
• Bishopric of Bremen