Isenger of Verden

Isenger of Verden is remembered as bishop of Verden in Saxony in the ninth century. According to O'Hanlon the most probable supposition is that he was Irish: he is said to have come from Scotia, which usually means Ireland.

The English Martyrology says that he was a Benedictine monk and abbot of the monastery of Amarbaric and that, after ruling it for some years, moved by zeal for the conversion of the people of the neighbouring regions, he set out for Belgium and Germany. He was afterwards appointed bishop of Verden, successor to Cortilla. Dempster calls him the seventh bishop there and a confessor. He lived around the beginning of the ninth century; his deeds are not known. His body was laid in the cathedral of Verden, where he was greatly honoured by the citizens. His day is 21 March, by the Julian calendar. He is honoured in the Irish calendars, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.