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(Called also CHRODEGAND, GODEGRAND, GUNDIGRAN, RATGANG, RODIGANG and SIRIGANG).
Bishop ofMetz, born at the beginning of the eighth century at Hasbania, in what is nowBelgian Limburg, of a nobleFrankishfamily; died atMetz, 6 March, 766. He waseducated at the court ofCharles Martel, became his private secretary, then chancellor, and in 737 prime minister. On 1 March, 742, he was appointedBishop ofMetz, retaining his civil office at the request of Pepin. In his influential position St. Chrodegang laboured earnestly for the welfare ofChurch and State, and was ever solicitous to strengthen the bonds of union between the temporal and spiritual rulers. In hisdiocese he introduced the Roman Liturgy and chant, community life for theclergy of hiscathedral, and wrote a special rule for them. He founded (748) the Abbey of Gorze (near Metz), and remained its friend and protector. He also established St. Peter's Abbey, on the Moselle, and did much for Gengenbach and Lorsch. For the latter he is said to have obtained therelics ofSt. Nazarius, and for Gorze those ofSt. Gorgonius. In 753 he was sent by Pepin toPope Stephen III to assure him of the sympathy of theFrankish rulers against the inroads ofAistulf, King of the Lombards. He accompanied thepope to Ponthieu. After the death ofSt. Boniface,Pope Stephen conferred thepallium on St. Chrodegang (754-755), thus making him anarchbishop, but not elevating theSee of Metz. St. Chrodegang was buried in the Abbey of Gorze. He was a man of imposing appearance, of a mild, though firm, character, of great liberality to thepoor, and of more than ordinary ability, well versed in Latin and German. The rule containing thirty-four chapters which he gave hisclergy (c. 755) was modeled according to the rules of St. Benedict and of the Canons of the Lateran (Mansi, XIV, 313;Hardouin, IV 1181;Migne, P.L., LXXXIX, 1097). Through it he gave a might impulse to the spread of community life among thesecular clergy. It was later increased to eighty-six chapters (D'Archey, Spicilegium, I, 656). In 762, during a dangerous illness, he introduced among hispriests a confraternity ofprayer known as the League of Attigny.
APA citation.Mershman, F.(1908).St. Chrodegang. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03729b.htm
MLA citation.Mershman, Francis."St. Chrodegang."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 3.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1908.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03729b.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Christine J. Murray.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. November 1, 1908. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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