Christianisation of the Germanic peoples
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The Germanic peoples underwent gradual Christianization in the course of late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. By AD 700, England and Francia were officially Christian, and by 1100 Germanic paganism had also ceased to have political influence in Scandinavia.
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List of missionaries
Christian missionaries to Germanic peoples:
to the Goths
- Ulfilas (Gothic, 341-383)
to the Lombards
- Saint Severinus of Noricum (5th century)
to the Alamanni
- Fridolin of Säckingen
- Columbanus (Irish, 6th century)
to the Anglo-Saxons (see Anglo-Saxon Christianity)
- Liuhard of Canterbury (6th century)
- Augustine of Canterbury (597-604)
- Chad of Mercia (7th century)
- Saint Honorius (7th century)
- Aidan of Lindisfarne (7th century)
to the Frankish Empire (see Hiberno-Scottish, Anglo-Saxon mission)
- Saint Trudpert (Irish, 7th century)
- Saint Rumbold
- Saint Boniface (English, 8th century)
- Saint Walpurga, Saint Willibald and Saint Winibald (English siblings assisting St Boniface)
- Saint Wilfried
- Saint Willibrord
- Saint Willehad
- Saint Lebuin
- Saint Liudger
- Saint Ewald
- Saint Suitbert of Kaiserswerth
- Saint Pirmin (8th century)
- Charlemagne
to the Bavarians
- Saint Corbinian (8th century)
to Scandinavia
- Ansgar (9th century)
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See also
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