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page 17th-century Christian abbots
John Climacus
Syrian mystic and abbot

Adomnán
Adomnán or Adamnán of Iona (; , Adomnanus; 624 – 704), also known as Eunan ( ; from ), was an abbot of Iona Abbey ( 679–704), hagiographer, statesman, canon jurist, and saint. He was the author of the Life of Columba (), probably written between 697 and 700. This biography is by far the most important surviving work written in early-medieval Scotland, and is a vital source for our knowledge of the Picts, and an insight into the life of Iona and the early-medieval Gaelic monk.

Aldhelm
Aldhelm (, ; 25 May 709), Abbot of Malmesbury Abbey, Bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry, was born before the middle of the 7th century. He is said to have been the son of Kenten, who was of the royal house of Wessex. He was certainly not, as his early biographer Faritius asserts, the brother of King Ine. After his death he was venerated as a saint, his feast day being the day of his death, 25 May.
Benedict Biscop
Anglo-Saxon abbot
Adrian of Canterbury
Abbot of Canterbury
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Earconwald
Saint Erkenwald (also Earconwald), died 693, was a Saxon prince who served as Bishop of London between 675 and 693 and is the first post-Roman-period Bishop of London to begin the unbroken succession in the Saxon See of London. He is the eponymous subject of the poem St. Erkenwald, regarded as one of the most important poems in the foundations of English literature, and thought to be by the same author as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The poem is concerned with ecumenical and interfaith dynamics.
He is regarded as the patron saint of London and was called Lundoniae maximum sanctus, 'the mos

Ceolfrith
Saint Ceolfrid (or Ceolfrith, ; also Geoffrey, c. 642 – 716) was an Anglo-Saxon Christian abbot and saint. He is best known as the warden of Bede from the age of seven until his death in 716. He was the Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey, and a major contributor to the project to produce the Codex Amiatinus Bible. He died in Burgundy while en route to deliver a copy of the codex to Pope Gregory II in Rome.
Saint Fursey
Catholic and Orthodox saint, born around 567 in Ireland and died in the Merovingian kingdom of Austrasia around 648

Beuno
Saint Beuno (; 640), sometimes anglicized as Bono, was a 7th-century Welsh abbot, confessor, and saint. Baring-Gould gives St Beuno's date of death as 21 April 640, making that date his traditional feastday. In the current Roman Catholic liturgical calendar for Wales, he is commemorated on 20 April, the 21st being designated for Saint Anselm.

Bertin
Bertin (; 615 – c. 709 AD), also known as Saint Bertin the Great, was the Frankish abbot of a monastery in Saint-Omer later named the Abbey of Saint Bertin after him. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. The fame of Bertin's learning and sanctity was so great that in a short time more than 150 monks lived under his rule. Among them were St. Winnoc and his three companions who had come from Brittany to join Bertin's community and assist in the conversions. Nearly the whole Morini region was Christianized.
Germanus of Granfelden
first abbot of Moutier-Grandval Monastery

Remaclus
Remaclus (also called Remaclus von Stablo; died 673) was a Benedictine missionary bishop who is venerated as a saint.
Landelin
Saint Landelin (Dutch and ; ; 625 – 686 AD in what is now Belgium) is a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.
Ursmar
Ursmar of Lobbes (born 644, died 713) was a missionary bishop in the Meuse and Ardennes region in present-day Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg and France. He was also the first abbot of Lobbes Abbey.
Trudo
Saint Trudo (Tron, Trond, Trudon, Trutjen, Truyen) (died ca. 698) was a saint of the seventh century. He is called the "Apostle of Hesbaye" (a region mainly now in the Belgian provinces of Walloon Brabant, Liège, and Limburg). His feast day is celebrated on 23 November.

Frobert of Troyes
French Roman Catholic saint

Maurontius of Douai
Paulus
bishop of Verdun
Bertulf of Renty
Belgian monk