Meinwerk of Paderborn

Saint Meinwerk of Paderborn was born around 975 into the aristocratic Immedinger family and was bishop of Paderborn in Germany from 1009 until his death on 5 June 1036. He received the see on the understanding that his property would pass to the diocese after his death.

For his building works he was called "the bishop-⁠builder" and "the second founder of Paderborn". In 1014 and 1015 he met the emperor Henry II twice to urge the continued reform of Corvey Abbey. In 1017 he won a dispute over the rights to Helmarshausen Abbey, which was granted to the diocese so that the bishop could protect it better. In the summer of 1030 he took part in the war between the Germans and the Hungarians.

His life and his times are told in the Vita Meinwerci. He is commemorated on 5 June as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.