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Henry
bishop of Finland
SaintFull write-upPre-congregation
Feast: 19 January (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1100
Died
1157
Beatified
—
not needed: before formal processes
Canonised
By tradition
recognised before formal processes began
Who they were
In Finland, Saint Henry, bishop and martyr, who, born in England, was given the charge of ruling the Church of Uppsala, working with great zeal for the evangelisation of the Finns; he was, in the end, cruelly slain by a murderer whom he had sought to correct according to Church discipline.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 20 January as a bishop who evangelised the Finns and was slain by a man he had sought to correct.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 20 January (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q445357 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Henry (bishop of Finland) (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.