Anschar, St (or St Anskar or St Ansgarius) (801–865)
| French cleric known as the ‘Apostle of the North’. He went as a missionary first to Denmark, then to Sweden, where he established the first Christian church. He was made archbishop of Hamburg 832; in 847 the see was transferred to Bremen. |
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