Saint
Nidker
A hierarch honored at Augsburg in Bavaria in the age of the undivided Church.
- Era
- 9th century
- Place
- Augsburg
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Nidker, also called Nidgar, was bishop of Augsburg in Bavaria from 816 until his death around 830. He came to be honored as a saint.
He succeeded Hanto in the see in 816. On 31 August 822 he sat on a court of the king's envoys held at Allershausen, where Bishop Hitto of Freising sued him over possession of the church at Kienberg. The case was decided in favor of Freising.
He died around 830 and was buried in the church of Saints Ulrich and Afra. Udalmann followed him. In 1064, when the church was demolished and rebuilt, his bones were found together with those of Saint Digna of Augsburg and two earlier bishops, Adalbero and Wicterp. After 1494 his likeness appears, with Digna, Adalbero, Wicterp and Bishop Tosso, on many of the Saint Ulrich crosses that pilgrims bought at the church.
He is a local saint of Augsburg, in the Western tradition; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.