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Berhtwald
Abbot of Glastonbury; Archbishop of Canterbury
SaintPre-congregation
Feast: 9 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
650
Died
731
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
Berhtwald (died 731) was the ninth Archbishop of Canterbury in England. His predecessor had been Theodore of Tarsus. Berhtwald begins the first continuous series of native-born Archbishops of Canterbury, although there had been previous Anglo-Saxon archbishops, they did not succeed each other until Berhtwald's successor Tatwine.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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Connected on this site
- Theodore of Tarsus Saint“His predecessor had been Theodore of Tarsus.” — Wikipedia