Burchard of Würzburg

Burchard of Würzburg

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name=Saint Burchard of Würzburg
birth_date=unknown
death_date=c. 750
feast_day= 14/10
venerated_in=Roman Catholic Church


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death_place=Würzurg
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Burchard of Würzburg was a Bishop of Würzburg in 741–754.

He was an Anglo-Saxon who left England after the death of his kinsfolk and joined Boniface in his missionary labors, some time after 732. When Boniface organized bishoprics in Middle Germany, he placed Burchard over that of Würzburg; his consecration can not have occurred later than the summer of 741, since in the autumn of that year, we find him officiating as a bishop at the consecration of Willibald of Eichstädt.

Pope Zachary confirmed the new bishopric in 743. Burchard appears again as a member of the first German council in 742, and as an envoy to Rome from Boniface in 748. With Fulrad of Saint-Denis, he brought to Zachary the famous question of Pepin, whose answer was supposed to justify the assumption of regal power by the Merovingians.

His saints day is 14th October. [CathEncy|wstitle=St. Burchard of Würzurg]

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