Ealdberht of Ripon

Saint Ealdberht of Ripon (Alberht) was abbot of the monastery at Ripon in Northumbria, in England. After the death of Saint Botwine in 786 he was elected and consecrated abbot in his place. He died in 788 and was succeeded by Saint Sicgred. A writer of about the year 1000 says that Saint Oswald, Archbishop of York, placed Botwine's relics in a shrine together with those of Saints Wilfrid, Tiatberht, Alberht, Sigered and Vilden, that is, of the saints of Ripon. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated at Ripon and Peterborough.