- Burchard of Würzburg
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name=Saint Burchard of Würzburg
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death_date=c. 750
feast_day= 14/10
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birth_place=England
death_place=Würzurg
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Bishop of Würzburg in 741–754.He was an Anglo-Saxon who left
England after the death of his kinsfolk and joinedBoniface in his missionary labors, some time after 732. When Boniface organized bishoprics inMiddle Germany , he placed Burchard over that ofWürzburg ; his consecration can not have occurred later than the summer of 741, since in the autumn of that year, we find him officiating as a bishop at the consecration ofWillibald of Eichstädt .Pope Zachary confirmed the new bishopric in 743. Burchard appears again as a member of the first German council in 742, and as an envoy to Rome from Boniface in 748. With Fulrad ofSaint-Denis , he brought to Zachary the famous question of Pepin, whose answer was supposed to justify the assumption of regal power by theMerovingians .His saints day is 14th October. [CathEncy|wstitle=St. Burchard of Würzurg]
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