281 lives of faith. Showing 133–144.
Bishop · 2 July
Otto of Bamberg was a German missionary and papal legate who converted much of medieval Pomerania to Christianity. He was the bishop of Bamberg from 1102 until his death.
Germany · Reported birthplace
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Paulinus was a Roman missionary and the first Bishop of York. A member of the Gregorian mission sent in 601 by Pope Gregory I to Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism, Paulinus arrived in England by 604 with the second missionary group.
Origin uncertain · Birthplace unknown
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Martyr · November 24
Pierre-Rose-Ursule Dumoulin-Borie was a French Catholic missionary priest and a member of the Paris Foreign Missions Society.
France · Family origin
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Bishop · 6 June
Rafael Guízar y Valencia was a Mexican bishop of the Roman Catholic Church who was persecuted during the Mexican Revolution.
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Richard of Chichester, also known as Richard de Wych, is a saint of the Catholic and Anglican churches who was the Christian Bishop of Chichester from 1244 to 1253.
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Bishop · 13 May
Saint Servatius was bishop of Tongeren. Servatius is patron saint of the city of Maastricht and the towns of Schijndel and Grimbergen.
Armenia (historical region) · Traditional attribution
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Thomas de Cantilupe was Lord Chancellor of England and Bishop of Hereford. He was canonised in 1320 by Pope John XXII.
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Vincenzo Strambi was an Italian Passionist. He was appointed prelate and served as the Bishop of Macerata-Tolentino from 1801 until his resignation in 1823.
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Bishop · 8 November
Willehad or Willihad; c. 745 AD – 8 November 789) was a Christian missionary and the Bishop of Bremen from 787 AD.
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Bishop · 7 November
Willibrord was an Anglo-Saxon monk, bishop, and missionary. He became the first Bishop of Utrecht in what is now the Netherlands, dying at Echternach in Luxembourg, and is known as the "Apostle to the Frisians ".
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Bishop · 12 April
Zeno of Verona was a Mauri Berber Christian figure believed to have either served as Bishop of Verona or died as a martyr.
North Africa (historical region) · Historical region
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Bishop · 17 September
Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński was a professor of the Saint Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy, Archbishop of Warsaw in 1862-1883, and founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary.
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