Burchard of Würzburg

Saint Burchard of Würzburg

Engraving by Johann Salver.
Born unknown
England
Died c. 750
Würzburg
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church Orthodox Church
Feast 14/10
The statue of Saint Burkhard on Würzburg's Alte Mainbrücke.

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 Carolingians.

His feast day is 14 October.[1]

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