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<p> a German prelate, was a monk of Lobe, who became,-in 996, bishop of Worms. He attended the [[Council]] of Selingenstadt in 1022. For many years he dwelt in a cell about two miles from Worms, where, with the assistance of Olbertus of Gemblours, he compiled his great work, the Decretorum Volumen, a collection of canons, decretals, etc. (Cologne, 1548, fol.; Paris, 1549, 8vo). </p>
<p> was a French ascetic theologian. Under the direction of St. [[Bernard]] he went to Clairvaux. In 1136 he was made abbot of Balerno. in Burgundy, and was finally transferred to the abbey of Bellevaux, where he died, April 19, 1162. He wrote a letter to Nicolas, monk of Clairvaux, which was published in the Bibliotheca Maxima Patrum (xxi, 523), also an appendix to the Life of St. Bernard, in the edition given by Mabillon (vol. ii). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v. </p>


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<ref name="term_28772"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/burchard+(1) Burchard from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
<ref name="term_28812"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/cyclopedia-of-biblical-theological-and-ecclesiastical-literature/burchard+(4) Burchard from Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature]</ref>
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Burchard [1]

was a French ascetic theologian. Under the direction of St. Bernard he went to Clairvaux. In 1136 he was made abbot of Balerno. in Burgundy, and was finally transferred to the abbey of Bellevaux, where he died, April 19, 1162. He wrote a letter to Nicolas, monk of Clairvaux, which was published in the Bibliotheca Maxima Patrum (xxi, 523), also an appendix to the Life of St. Bernard, in the edition given by Mabillon (vol. ii). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.

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