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{{Infobox Christian leader | type = | honorific_prefix = [[Saint]] | name = Earconwald | title = [[Bishop of London]] | image = Wenceslas Hollar - St Erkenwald (monument) (State 2).jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Engraving of the lost shrine of St Erkenwald in [[Old St Paul's Cathedral]]: it was desecrated in the [[English Reformation|Reformation]] and destroyed in the [[Great Fire of London]] in 1666 | province = [[Province of Canterbury|Canterbury]] | enthroned = 675 | ended = 693 | predecessor = [[Wine (bishop)|Wine]] | successor = [[Waldhere (Bishop of London)|Waldhere]] | other_post = [[Prince]], [[Abbot]] of [[Chertsey Abbey|Chertsey]] | consecration = {{circa|675}} | birth_date = {{circa|630}} | birth_place = [[Kingdom of Lindsey]] | death_date = 693 | death_place = [[Barking Abbey]] | buried = [[Old St Paul's Cathedral]], London through the location and survival of his relics are debated | religion = [[Roman Catholic Church]] <!---------- Sainthood ---------->| feast_day = 13 May<br>24 April<br>30 April<br>14 November in England | attributes = bishop in a small chariot, which he used for travelling his diocese; with Saint [[Ethelburga of Barking]] | patronage = against gout, [[London]] | shrine = [[Old St Paul's Cathedral]]: relics removed by 1550, lost in the Great Fire of London }} '''Saint Earconwald''' or '''Erkenwald'''{{efn|Also '''Ercenwald''', '''Eorcenwald''' or '''Erconwald'''}} (died 693) was a Saxon prince<ref>{{Cite web |title=St. Erkenwald |url=https://sterkenwald2808.freemasons.london/st-erkenwald/ |access-date=2023-09-12 |website=St. Erkenwald Lodge 2808}}</ref> and [[Bishop of London]] between 675 and 693.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gollancz |first=Israel |title=St. Erkenwald |date=2018-04-23 |publisher=Forgotten Books |isbn=978-0-331-84084-1 |language=English}}</ref> He is the [[eponym]]ous subject of one of the most [[St. Erkenwald (poem)|important poems]] in the foundations of English literature<ref>{{Cite web |title=Middle English Alliterative Poetry |url=https://mediakron.bc.edu/alliterativepoetry/poems/st-erkenwald-1 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=mediakron.bc.edu}}</ref> (thought to be by the [[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]] [[Pearl poet|Pearl Poet]]). He was called ''Lundoniae maximum sanctus'', 'the most holy figure of London',<ref name="ackroyd bio">{{Cite book |last=Ackroyd |first=Peter |title=London: The Biography |date=1900-01-01 |publisher=Anchor Books |isbn=978-0-385-49771-8 |edition=Illustrated |location=New York |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=London in the Not-so-Dark Ages |url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/london-not-so-dark-ages |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.gresham.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> and ''Lux Londonie'', "the light of London".<ref name="statutes1">{{Cite web |title=Statutes (Baldock and Lisieux): Pars sexta {{!}} British History Online |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/st-pauls-register/pp79-111 |access-date=2023-09-18 |website=www.british-history.ac.uk}}</ref> [[Peter Ackroyd]] has said of him, "we may still name him as the patron saint of [[London]], [his]... cult survived for over eight hundred years, before entering the temporary darkness of the last four centuries".<ref name="ackroyd bio"/> He is associated with a very early [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] phase of building at [[St Paul's Cathedral]], and [[William Dugdale]] says he began the building.<ref>William Dugdale, 'The History of St. Paul's Cathedral in London' (London, 2nd ed. 1716), p115.</ref> In recent times he has been portrayed in novels and films, for example in the work of [[Bernard Cornwell]]. The early [[diocese of London]] was coterminous with the [[Kingdom of Essex]], making the Bishop of London the Bishop of the East Saxons.<ref>On the Diocese of London originally serving the East Saxons {{Cite web |date=7 May 2023 |title=Our History |url=https://ldbs.co.uk/history/ |access-date=7 May 2023 |website=London Diocesan Board for Schools |language=en}}</ref>
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