Halitgar

Halitgar of Cambrai ( fr.: Halitgaire; Latin: Halitgarius; * before 817, † 830 or 831 ) was from 817 until his death bishop of Cambrai in northern France today. He is known as the Apostle of the Danes, and as the author of the Middle Ages widespread Bußbuches.

In 822 or 823 he traveled with Archbishop Ebo of Reims, Bishop Willerich from Bremen to Denmark to start there by Emperor Louis the Pious and Pope Paschal funded North Mission. This work, however, was not crowned with much immediate success. 823 he consecrated the church and the relics of St. Ursmar ( Ursmer ) in the Abbey Lobbes in Hainault. 825 he and Amalarius of Metz brought about the decisions of the Paris Synod on the iconoclasm of Louis the Pious. 828 he traveled as an envoy of the Emperor Louis the Pious to Byzantium.

829 he took part in the Paris Synod, which is to oppose the use of inadequate penitentials. Archbishop Ebo of Rheims commissioned him then, based on the teachings of the Church Fathers put together a new and binding for the entire metropolitan area of Reims penitential to prepare the prevailing confusion in the use of traditional penitentials an end. Then he wrote the work: " De vitiis et virtutibus et ordine poenitentialium " ( Rabanus Maurus formerly attributed to ). The task was difficult, because the form of discipline and penance, which was the widespread at that time Celtic penitentials basis was, the church fathers have known. Halitgar completed his work in 830

He died in 830 or 831, his successor as bishop of Cambrai was Theodoric ( Dietrich ).