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Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
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Saint

Nivard of Reims

Archbishop of Reims

Archbishop of Reims and founder of a monastery, reposed around 673.

Feast
September 1old style September 14
Reposed
6737th century
Place
Rheims
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Nivard of Reims was bishop (archbishop) of Reims in the Merovingian period, from about 649 until his repose on 1 September 673, and founded a monastery. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 1 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 14 September of the civil calendar. We have no further details of his life.

Commemorated the same day September 1