Martyr · 5 August
St. Oswald of Northumbria
Oswald was King of Northumbria from 634 until his death, and is venerated as a saint, of whom there was a particular cult in the Middle Ages.
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Saints from United Kingdom
Read the full stories of 86 saints whose birth or early family origins are associated with present-day United Kingdom.
Showing 61–72 of 86. Read each story’s origin note for traditional or disputed accounts.
Bishop
St. Oswald of Worcester
Oswald of Worcester was Archbishop of York from 972 to his death in 992. He was of Danish ancestry, but brought up by his uncle, Oda of Canterbury, who sent him to France to the abbey of Fleury to become a monk.
United Kingdom · Early origin
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Bishop
St. Patrick
Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland.
United Kingdom · Historical geography
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Martyr · 19 October
St. Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel
Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel was an English nobleman. He was canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970, as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.
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Martyr · December 1
St. Ralph Sherwin
Ralph Sherwin was an English Roman Catholic priest, executed in 1581.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Martyr · October 17
St. Richard Gwyn
Richard Gwyn was a Welsh teacher at illegal and underground schools and a bard who wrote both Christian and satirical poetry in the Welsh language.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Bishop
St. Richard of Chichester
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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Lay Saint · February 7
St. Richard the Pilgrim
Richard the Pilgrim was an English nobleman and Christian saint.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Priest · 7 June
St. Robert of Newminster
Robert of Newminster was a priest, abbot, and a saint of the Catholic Church. He was born in Gargrave in Yorkshire, England.
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Martyr · 21 February
St. Robert Southwell
Robert Southwell, SJ, also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also an author of Christian poetry in Elizabethan English, and a clandestine missionary in Elizabethan England.
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Martyr · November 14
St. Serapion of Algiers
Serapion of Algiers was an English Catholic Mercedarian priest and martyr.
United Kingdom · Present-day geography
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Monastic · 26 January
St. Stephen Harding
Stephen Harding was an English-born monk and abbot, who was one of the founders of the Cistercian Order. He is honoured as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
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