Event: Appointment/consecration/elevation/ordination of bishopWillibrord 1.episcopal consecration
Scholarly Info
Description |
Although unworthy he [sc. Willibrord 1] was consecrated as a bishop. |
Year |
695 |
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Primary Source Info
Original Text |
... quamuis indignus fuit ordinatus ... episcopus ... |
Date from Source |
In the six-hundred-and ninety-fifth year from the incarnation of the Lord |
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Notes:
*This note appears on the left-hand margin of the Calendar and, as @Wilson 1918, p. 43, observes 'seems to have been written by St. Willibrord 1 himself. No one else, we may fairly assume, would have employed with regard to him the phrase "quamvis indignus".'
Persons associated with this Event:
- Recipient:
Willibrord 1
(Missionary; archbishop of the Frisians, 695-739; abbot of Echternach, 697/698-739)
- Agent:
Sergius 1
(I, pope, 687-701)
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