Modoald of Trier

Saint Modoald of Trier was bishop (also styled archbishop) of Trier in Germany and reposed around the year 640. The Church commemorates him on 12 May.

He was born in Gascony, or in Aquitaine according to other sources, the son of Arnulf, later bishop of Metz. He was related by blood to, and united by friendship with, most of the saints of the Merovingian period. He lived at the court of King Dagobert I, who made him bishop of Trier in 622 by some lists, or in 626. He founded the community of Saint-⁠Symphorien on the Moselle and placed it under the care of his sister, Saint Severa. The young Germanus of Granfelden, of a wealthy senatorial family of Trier, was entrusted to him by his father for his education. Modoald is venerated as patron of the imperial abbey of Helmarshausen. Some sources extend his episcopate to 645.