List of Missionaries
Christian Missionaries to Germanic peoples:
to the Goths
- Ulfilas (Gothic, 341-383)
to the Lombards
- Saint Severinus of Noricum (5th century)
- Eugippus
to the Alamanni
- Fridolin of Säckingen
- Columbanus (Irish, 6th century)
- Saint Gall
to the Anglo-Saxons (see Anglo-Saxon Christianity)
- Liuhard of Canterbury (6th century)
- Augustine of Canterbury (597-604)
- Laurence of Canterbury
- Mellitus
- Justus
- 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)
- Adam of Bremen (11th century)
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