Saint
Alchmund of Hexham
Bishop of Hexham
Bishop of Hexham in Northumbria, reposed in 781.
- Feast
- September 7old style September 20
- Reposed
- 7818th century
- Place
- Hexham
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Alchmund of Hexham was the seventh bishop of Hexham in Northumbria in England. He was consecrated on 24 April 767 for the church founded there by Saint Wilfrid, and reposed on 7 September 780 or 781. He was buried beside Saint Acca outside the church. Almost nothing is known of his life, but he was deeply venerated as one of the saints of Hexham. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.
His commemoration falls on 7 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 20 September of the civil calendar.
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