Oudoceus

Saint Oudoceus (Latin) or Euddogwy (Welsh) (fl. late 6th century) is generally known as the third Bishop of Llandaff in South Wales. In reality he was probably a 7th-century bishop at Llandeilo Fawr. Wendy Davies puts his episcopal reign between about 650 and 700.

Life

Land grants in the Book of Llandaff show Oudoceus as a contemporary of late 7th-century kings of South Wales. However his associations with Llandaff are very strong and it seems he was an early patron of the church there, where he is said to have placed relics of Saint Teilo. In the Life of St. Oudoceus it is related that Einion, King of Glewyssig, was hunting a stag amongst the rocks and woods of the river Wye, when the stag reaching the cloak of Oudoceus lay down on it, the hounds being then unable to touch it. He eventually retired to Llandogo, near Tintern, and died there one 2 July. He was supposedly buried at the church in Llandaff, on the site of the present Llandaff Cathedral. He is one of the three saints to whom it is dedicated.