Oda the Severe

Saint Oda or Odo, called the Good or the Severe (d. 959) was a 10th century Archbishop of Canterbury in England.

Born in East Anglia of Danish parents, Oda was Bishop of Ramsbury from 927 to 942, and went with King Æthelstan to the battle of Brunanburh in 937. In 942 he succeeded Wulfhelm as Archbishop of Canterbury, and he appears to have been an able and conscientious ruler of the see. He had great influence with King Edwy, whom he had crowned in 956.

External links

*Royal Berkshire History: St. Odo the Good