Person

Alfanus I

Archbishop of Salerno

b. 1020 CE – d. 1085 CE World The Middle of The Earth

Saint Alfanus I or Alfano I (died 1085) was the Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death.

He is famed as a translator, writer, theologian, and medical doctor in the eleventh century.

He is a physician before he becomes archbishop, one of the earliest great doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana.