Reginbrand (d. 988) was a bishop of the

Ancient See of Aarhus The former Diocese of Aarhus ( da, Aarhus Stift) was a Roman Catholic diocese in Denmark, founded in the 10th century and dissolved during the Protestant Reformation. The diocese included the counties of Aarhus and Randers, the islands of Sams ...

. He was ordained by bishop

Adaldag Adaldag (c. 90028 April 988; also Adelgis, Adelger, and Adalgag) was the seventh archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, from 937 until his death. He was of noble birth, a relation and pupil of Adalward, Bishop of Verden, and became canon of Hildesheim. Ot ...

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in 948 in the first ordination of bishops in the

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n countries. The ordination had the explicit support of the pope who wished to expand Christianity into northern Europe. Adaldag ordained three bishops for the

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region; Harald to Slesvig, Ljufdag to

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and Reginbrand to Aarhus. The meeting was attended by Otto the Great and Louis IV along with 34 German, French and Danish bishops, in the St. Remigius Kirche in

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. The ordination of Reginbrand is seen as an important point in the history of

and Aarhus. It happened two decades before

Harald Bluetooth Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson ( non, Haraldr Blátǫnn Gormsson; da, Harald Blåtand Gormsen, died c. 985/86) was a king of Denmark and Norway. He was the son of King Gorm the Old and of Thyra Dannebod. Harald ruled as king of Denmark from c. ...

officially christened Denmark and meant that all ecclesiastical affairs could be conducted domestically without interference by international diplomacy and politics. Of Reginbrand's life and death little is known and the See of Aarhus was temporarily vacant after his death in 988.

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