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Maximus of Salzburg (died 476) was an abbot-bishop of

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label= Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...

in the 5th century when the

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was established in 474. A disciple of

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, Maximus was an early

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- according to some accounts he was hanged, while other say that he and his parishioners were thrown off a cliff. After he was martyred, the

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was abandoned. Christianity did not return to the area until the 8th century with the arrival of

Arno of Salzburg Arno, Arn or Aquila (c. 750–821) was bishop of Salzburg, and afterwards its first archbishop. He preserved his voluminous correspondence from the scholar Alcuin of York. Early years He entered the church at an early age, and after passing so ...

as a bishop and later archbishop of Salzburg.

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Roman Catholic archbishops of Salzburg 476 deaths 5th-century Christian martyrs Year of birth unknown {{Christianity-bio-stub