Urban of Peñalba

Urban of Peñalba was a Benedictine monk and abbot of the monastery of Santiago de Peñalba, near Ponferrada, in El Bierzo, in Spain. He was born in the second half of the 9th century and died in 939 at Peñalba.

He helped Saint Genadius of Astorga reform the Benedictine monasteries of the region. He assisted Genadius at his death and succeeded him as abbot of the monastery of Santiago de Peñalba, but died after three years. Shortly after his death a Latin hymn in his memory was preserved. For the holiness of his life he was buried in the church of the monastery of Peñalba, beside his master Genadius; some relics are kept at the Dominican convent of Villafranca del Bierzo. The monastery disappeared as such in the 12th century; the church remains, now parochial.

He is a local saint of the West, from Christian Spain before the great separation; no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.