Earconwald
Bishop of London and Saint · Religious Figures · Lived 630 to 693 · aged 63
Erkenwald, died 693, was a Saxon prince who served as Bishop of London between 675 and 693 and is the first post-Roman-period Bishop of London to begin the unbroken succession in the Saxon See of London.
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Medieval Stained Glass Window depicting St. Erkenwald and St. William (likely Bishop William of London) in St. Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich.
Stone marking the site of the grave of Mellitus (d. 624), the first Bishop of London, in the ruins of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury.Erkenwald may have been a pupil of Mellitus, linking him directly to the Augustine mission. Mellitus's shrine was stripped of valuables and destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Erkenwald teaching monks in a historiated initial from the Chertsey Breviary (c.1300)
A window in Wells Cathedral. Mostly original glass; the heads depict Pope Stephen, St Blaise, St Erkenwald, and Pope Marcellus.
Drawing of tombs of Kings Sæbbi and Æthelred the Unready in Old St Paul's Cathedral by Wenceslaus Hollar. Sæbbi may have been involved in Erkenwald's appointment to the Bishopric of London.
Fulham Palace, granted to Erkenwald and used for nearly 1000 years as a residence of the Bishop of London
Orthodox Image of St Erkenwald: Erkenwald is considered a saint of the undivided churchAbout this person
He is the eponymous subject of the poem St. Erkenwald, regarded as one of the most important poems in the foundations of English literature, and thought to be by the same author as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The poem is concerned with ecumenical and interfaith dynamics.
