Editing Ansgar (section)

{{Short description|Christian saint, Archbishop, and missionary}}
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{{Infobox saint
|honorific_prefix = Saint
|name=Ansgar
|birth_date=8 September 801
|death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|865|2|3|801|9|8}}
|feast_day=3 February
|venerated_in=[[Catholic Church]]<br/>[[Eastern Orthodox Church]]<ref>February 16 / February 3. https://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/htc/orthodox-calendar/</ref><br/>[[Anglican Communion]]<ref name="teccalendar">{{Cite web |title=Anskar, Bishop and Missionary, 865 |url=https://www.episcopalchurch.org/lectionary/anskar/ |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=The Episcopal Church |language=en-US}}</ref><br/>[[Lutheranism]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.resurrectionpeople.org/saints.html |title=Notable Lutheran Saints |website=Resurrectionpeople.org |access-date=16 July 2019 |archive-date=16 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516024927/http://www.resurrectionpeople.org/saints.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|image=Bendixen Ansgar.jpg
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|caption=A depiction of Saint Ansgar by [[Siegfried Bendixen]] from the Church Trinitatis, in [[Hamburg]], Germany
|birth_place=[[Corbie]], [[Frankish Kingdom]]
|death_place=[[Bremen (city)|Bremen]], [[East Francia]]
|titles=Apostle of the North
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|canonized_by=[[Pope Nicholas I]]
|attributes=Dressed in archbishop's attire with a model of the church
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|patronage=[[Scandinavia]], [[Missionaries]]|issues=
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'''Ansgar''' (8 September 801 – 3 February 865), also known as '''Anskar''',<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-worship/worship/texts/festivals/lesser-festivals/anskar.aspx|title = Common Worship texts: Festivals|access-date = 2015-02-03|website = The Church of England}}</ref> '''Saint Ansgar''', '''Saint Anschar''' or '''Oscar''', was [[Archbishopric of Bremen|Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen]] in the northern part of the [[Kingdom of the East Franks]]. Ansgar became known as the "Apostle of the North" because of his travels and the [[See of Hamburg]] received the missionary mandate to bring Christianity to Northern Europe.<ref name="ce">{{CathEncy|wstitle=St. Anschar}}</ref><ref name=SHMI>{{cite book|author=Fr. Paolo O. Pirlo, SHMI|title=My First Book of Saints|year=1997|publisher=Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate – Quality Catholic Publications|isbn=971-91595-4-5|pages=41|chapter=St. Ansgar}}</ref>