ADALGAG, BISHOP OF BREMEN - 29 APRIL

 

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ADALGAG, BISHOP OF BREMEN

Adalgag (Adalgagus, Adalalgus, Adaldag) was bishop in Bremen and is listed as "blessed" by Bucelin*.

Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 1, Augsburg, 1858, p. 25

         *A hagiography source used by the authors 

Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations

SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF ADALGAG'S CAREER 

- In 948 Archbishop Adaldag of Hamburg consecrated Reginbrand as missionary Bishop of Aarhus. 

- Pope Benedict V was placed under the care of Adaldag, Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, who treated him with great consideration, he was even then acknowledged as pope by some of the German clergy. 

- Through the efforts of Archbishop Adaldag (937-988) Bremen received the privileges of a market town, and in 967 the same archbishop obtained the jurisdiction of a count over the city, as well as various crown-lands from Otto I, thus laying the foundation for the temporal possessions of the archbishops of Bremen. At the instance of Adaldag three dioceses were erected in Danish territory and in Schleswig, and made suffragans of Bremen. 

- The first church built at Ribe was founded by Saint Ansgar in 860, served by his biographer and successor, Saint Rembert, and destroyed during the heathen reaction after the latter's death in 888. It was rebuilt towards 948, in which year Saint Leofdag. first Bishop of Ribe, was consecrated by Archbishop Adaldag of Hamburg, probably at the Council of Ingelheim (Germany), which the Jutish bishops attended.

From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913