آنسگار

Also known as Saint Ansgar, Ansgarius, St. Ansgar, St. Anschar, Anschar

Ansgar (8 September 801 – 3 February 865), also known as Anskar, Saint Ansgar, Saint Anschar or Oscar, was Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen in the northern part of the Kingdom of the East Franks. Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North" because of his travels and the See of Hamburg received the missionary mandate to bring Christianity to Northern Europe.

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Key facts

Saint.honorific_prefix: Saint
Saint.name: Ansgar
Saint.birth_date: 8 September 801
Saint.feast_day: 3 February
Saint.venerated_in: Catholic ChurchEastern Orthodox ChurchAnglican CommunionLutheranism
Saint.image: Bendixen Ansgar.jpg
Saint.caption: A depiction of Saint Ansgar by Siegfried Bendixen from the Church Trinitatis, in Hamburg, Germany
Saint.birth_place: Corbie, Frankish Kingdom
Saint.death_place: Bremen, East Francia
Saint.titles: Apostle of the North
Saint.canonized_by: Pope Nicholas I
Saint.attributes: Dressed in archbishop's attire with a model of the church
Saint.patronage: Scandinavia, Missionaries