Saint
Adalward
A hierarch of the West, who reposed in 933.
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- Reposed
- 93310th century
- Order
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Life
Adalward was bishop of Verden in Saxony and died on 27 October 933. He is the fourteenth in the supposed series of the bishops of Verden and the ninth in the real one. The start of his episcopate is uncertain, 909 or 910, by some 913.
He stood in special regard with King Henry I and came often to his court, for example at the imperial assembly of Worms in 926. Adam of Bremen testifies to his perfect loyalty to the king and a life without blemish, and praises his learning too. He worked as a missionary among the Wends of the diocese of Verden, in the Altmark and in the Hanoverian Wendland. Through him his relative and pupil Adaldag, later archbishop of Hamburg, came to the royal court.
He is counted among the saints of the 10th century in some Western lists. Our sources give no details of the cult; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.