Egbert

EGBERT. - Benedictine, archbishop of York (England), died there on 19 November 766. He was a cousin of the king of Northumbria, Ceolwulf; as a young man he went to Rome, where he became acquainted with Roman customs and was ordained deacon. Having returned to his homeland, he was appointed bishop of York (732), where he undertook the work of ecclesiastical reform. In 735 he obtained the pallium from Rome and

(from H. Th. Barker), Alberta, Turin (S2), p. 135)

AEGEAN RELIGION - Seal (engraved hardstone). Des Signora degli animali between two lions - Kalkani (Mycenae).

with this the restoration of the archiepiscopal and metropolitan title for his diocese. He established a famous school, in which he himself taught. He was a friend of St. Bede, Alcuin, St. Boniface.

Various works go under his name, but scholars do not agree on their authenticity; some are certainly later reworkings. The De iure sacerdotali (PL 89, 379-400) is generally attributed to him. ■ Paenitentiale (op. cit., coll. 401-31; cf. J. H. Schmitz, Die Bussbücher, I, Mainz 1883, pp. 573-87; H. Düsseldorf 1898, pp. 661-74), may contain an authentic core, but for the most part it is a summary of the work of Halitgar, bishop of Cambrai. The De institutione ecclesiastica dialogus (PL 89, 433-42) and the Canones de remedia peccatorum (op. cit., 89, 443-54) are not by E., which B. Albers (in Archiv für katholisches Kirchenrecht, 81 [1901], pp. 393-420) attributes to St. Bede. Finally, a Pontificale goes under the name of E., which may be his work, now in the National Library of Paris, ms. lat. n. 138 (cf. F. Cabrol, s. v. in DACL, IV, coll. 2211-20).