Altfrid of Münster

Holy Hierarch Altfrid of Münster was bishop of Münster and abbot of the monasteries of Werden and Helmstedt, and he reposed on 22 April 849. After the death of his predecessor, Gerfrid, he was appointed in 839 the third bishop of Münster. Like Gerfrid he was a nephew of Liudger, the first bishop of Münster, whose biography he wrote, the "Vita Liudgeri".

In the same year Altfrid, whose name means "noble protector" or "prince of the elves", became the fifth abbot of the monastery of Werden. In his time the Liudger crypt of the monastery was finished, in which he himself was buried after his death in 849. He is honored as a saint of the undivided Church.