Ansgar
Missionary to Denmark and later Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen · France · Religious Figures · Lived 801 to 865 · aged 63
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Something wrong?A ninth-century archbishop who carried Christianity into Scandinavia when the North was still pagan, earning the title "Apostle of the North" through sheer range and persistence.
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About this person
Born on 8 September 801, Ansgar rose to become Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen in the northern reaches of the Kingdom of the East Franks. His see was given the missionary mandate to convert Northern Europe - a directive he took literally, traveling deep into territory where the old gods still held. Those journeys, pushing the faith into lands that had never heard it, locked his reputation. He died on 3 February 865, having spent his life trying to turn the pagan North Christian.
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