Hanno

Hanno (often also called Anno) was a Benedictine monk and bishop of Worms from 950 to 978. He died on 24 December 978.

He came from a noble family in the circle of the emperor Otto I. The Worms chronicle of Friedrich Zorn (1604) calls him a Hessian named Hanno and gives the text of his epitaph. He began his service as a monk of the Benedictine abbey of Saint Maximin at Trier. In 937 King Otto I made him the first abbot of the monastery of Saint Maurice at Magdeburg. Thirteen years later, in 950, on the order of the future emperor, he became the fifteenth bishop of Worms. In 952 he took part, with Saint Ulrich, in the synod of Augsburg. In 964 he was at Rome, where Pope Leo VIII names him, in the bull of consecration of the Swiss monastery of Einsiedeln, among the prelates come from Germany and consulted on the matter. In 970 he was again in Italy, at Ravenna, where he appears as witness in a charter of Otto I. In 976 Otto II gave him the Benedictine monastery of Mosbach.

Since 24 December 978 is the day of his death, on Christmas Eve his name day is also celebrated. The Benedictine martyrology counts him among the saints, and his liturgical day in the diocese of Worms was 20 September. His successor in the see, Hildebold, was said to be his brother.

He is a local saint of the West; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.