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The Bishop of Lindisfarne was the ordinary

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of several early medieval episcopal see

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s (and diocese

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s) in Northumbria and pre-Conquest England

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. The first such see was founded at Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne

Lindisfarne is a tidal island off the north-east coast of England. It is also known as Holy Island and constitutes a civil parish in Northumberland...

in 635 by Saint Aidan

Aidan of Lindisfarne

Known as Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Aidan the Apostle of Northumbria , was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England. A Christian missionary, he is credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria. Aidan is the Anglicised form of the original Old...

List of Bishops of Lindisfarne

Bishops of Lindisfarne
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
635	651	Aidan Aidan of Lindisfarne Known as Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne, Aidan the Apostle of Northumbria , was the founder and first bishop of the monastery on the island of Lindisfarne in England. A Christian missionary, he is credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria. Aidan is the Anglicised form of the original Old...	Saint Aidan.
651	661	Finan Finan of Lindisfarne Finan of Lindisfarne , also known as Saint Finan, was an Irish monk, trained at Iona in Scotland, who became Bishop of Lindisfarne from 651 until 661. Originally from Ireland, he founded a cathedral on Lindisfarne and converted the kings Sigebert of Essex and Peada of the Middle Angles to...	Saint Finan.
661	664	Colmán Colmán of Lindisfarne Colmán of Lindisfarne also known as Saint Colmán was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 661 until 664. He succeeded Aidan and Finan. Colman resigned the Bishopric of Lindisfarne after the Synod of Whitby called by King Oswiu of Northumbria decided to calculate Easter using the method of the First...	Saint Colmán.
664		Tuda Tuda of Lindisfarne Tuda of Lindisfarne , also known as Saint Tuda, was Bishop of Lindisfarne for less than a year. Although raised in Ireland, he was a staunch believer in Roman Catholic practices, and wore a Roman tonsure and celebrated Easter on the Roman date. However, he was consecrated as bishop in Ireland...	Saint Tuda.
In 664 the diocese was merged to York Diocese of York The Diocese of York is an administrative division of the Church of England, part of the Province of York. It covers the city of York, the eastern part of North Yorkshire, and most of the East Riding of Yorkshire.... by Wilfrid Wilfrid Wilfrid was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon... (who succeeded Tuda following his death), leaving one large diocese in the large northern Kingdom of Northumbria.
The diocese was reinstated in 678 by Theodore of Tarsus Theodore of Tarsus Theodore was the eighth Archbishop of Canterbury, best known for his reform of the English Church and establishment of a school in Canterbury.... , Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of Canterbury The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group... following Wilfrid's banishment from Northumbria Northumbria Northumbria was a medieval kingdom of the Angles, in what is now Northern England and South-East Scotland, becoming subsequently an earldom in a united Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England. The name reflects the approximate southern limit to the kingdom's territory, the Humber Estuary.Northumbria was... by King King Ecgfrith Ecgfrith of Northumbria King Ecgfrith was the King of Northumbria from 670 until his death. He ruled over Northumbria when it was at the height of its power, but his reign ended with a disastrous defeat in which he lost his life.-Early life:... . Its new seat was initially (at least in part) at Hexham Bishop of Hexham The Bishop of Hexham was an episcopal title which took its name after the market town of Hexham in Northumberland, England. The title was first used by the Anglo-Saxons in the 7th and 9th centuries, and then by the Roman Catholic Church in the 19th century.... (until a new diocese was created there in 680).
678	685	Eata of Hexham Eata of Hexham Eata , also known as Eata of Lindisfarne, was bishop of Lindisfarne from 678 until 685, and of Hexham from then until his death...	Saint Eata.
685	687	Cuthbert Cuthbert - People :Cuthbert , Anglo-Saxon saint, bishop, monk and hermitCuthbert of Canterbury , Archbishop of CanterburyCuthbert Bardsley , Anglican Bishop of CoventryCuthbert Brodrick , British architect...	Saint Cuthbert.
688	698	Eadberht Eadberht of Lindisfarne Eadberht of Lindisfarne , also known as Saint Eadberht, was Bishop of Lindisfarne, England, from 688 until 698. He is notable as having founded the holy shrine to his predecessor Saint Cuthbert on the island of Lindisfarne, a place that was to become a centre of great pilgrimage in later years.It...	Saint Eadberht.
698	721	Eadfrith Eadfrith of Lindisfarne Eadfrith of Lindisfarne , also known as Saint Eadfrith, was Bishop of Lindisfarne, probably from 698 onwards. By the twelfth century it was believed that Eadfrith succeeded Eadberht and nothing in the surviving records contradicts this belief...	Saint Eadfrith.
721	740	Æthelwold	Saint Æthelwold.
740	780	Cynewulf Cynewulf of Lindisfarne Cynewulf of Lindisfarne was the Bishop of Lindisfarne from 740 to 780. He resigned the see in 780 and died in 783. It is possible that he was also the Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf, who was known to be alive at about the same time....
780	803	Higbald Higbald of Lindisfarne Higbald of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 780 until his death on 24 June 803. Powicke gives his death date as 25 May 802...
803	821	Egbert Egbert of Lindisfarne Egbert of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne from his consecration on 11 June 802 until his death in 821. He is often confused with Saint Egbert who served as a monk at Lindisfarne, though the latter never became a bishop there....
821	830	Egfrid Egfrid of Lindisfarne Egfrid of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 821 until his death in 830. It is thought that he founded the church of Saint Cuthbert in Norham.- External links :*...
830	845	Ecgred Ecgred of Lindisfarne Ecgred of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 830 to 845. He was the founder, in 830, of a church on the site of the now ruined Jedburgh Abbey and it is thought he was also the founder of the settlement that later came to be known as Jedburgh...
845	854	Eanbert Eanbert of Lindisfarne Eanbert of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 845 until 854. He was the penultimate bishop to reside at Lindisfarne, which by this time was regularly being invaded by Vikings.-References:...
854	875	Eardulf Eardulf of Lindisfarne Eardulf of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne for a forty six years between 854, following the death of his predecessor, and his own death in 899...
The monk Monk A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose... s of Lindisfarne fled from the Danes Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... in 875 along with the ancient remains of Saint Cuthbert and there was no seat of the Bishop of Lindisfarne for seven years. In 882 Eardulf and his monks settled in Chester-le-Street Chester-le-Street Chester-le-Street is a town in County Durham, England. It has a history going back to Roman times when it was called Concangis. The town is located south of Newcastle upon Tyne and west of Sunderland on the River Wear... and the seat of the Bishop and diocese of Lindisfarne was based there until 995.
Bishops of Lindisfarne (at Chester-le-Street)
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
882	900	Eardulf Eardulf of Lindisfarne Eardulf of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne for a forty six years between 854, following the death of his predecessor, and his own death in 899...
900	915	Cutheard Cutheard of Lindisfarne Cutheard of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 900 to 915, although the see was administered from Chester-le-Street.Cutheard was responsible for purchasing the village of Bedlington in Northumberland, which was later incorporated into the properties belonging to the Bishopric of Durham...
915	928	Tilred Tilred of Lindisfarne Tilred of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne between 915 and 928.Prior to moving to Lindisfarne Tilred had been the abbot of Heversham in Cumbria. It has been surmised that Tilred dedicated the monastery at Heversham to St Cuthbert at some point after 901 so that he may later be accepted into...
928	944	Wilgred Wilgred of Lindisfarne Wilgred of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne between 928 and 944.-References:* accessed on 29 August 2007* Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961...
944	947	Uchtred Uchtred of Lindisfarne -References:* Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961...
947		Sexhelm Sexhelm of Lindisfarne Sexhelm of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne for six months in 947.He was probably the Sexhelm mentioned in Walter Scott's Marmion:...
947	968	Aldred Aldred of Lindisfarne Aldred of Lindisfarne was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 947 to 968.-References:* Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961- External links :*...
968	990	Ælfsige	Called "Bishop of St Cuthbert".
990	995	Aldhun	Moved the see & diocese to Durham Diocese of Durham The Diocese of Durham is a Church of England diocese, based in Durham, and covering the historic County Durham . It was created in AD 1000 to replace the Diocese of Lindisfarne... .
In 995, the King had paid the Danegeld Danegeld The Danegeld was a tax raised to pay tribute to the Viking raiders to save a land from being ravaged. It was called the geld or gafol in eleventh-century sources; the term Danegeld did not appear until the early twelfth century... to the Danish Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... and Norwegian Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... Kings and peace was restored. Aldhun was on his way to reestablish the see at Lindisfarne when he received a divine vision that the body of St Cuthbert should be laid to rest in Durham Durham Durham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county... . The see and diocese of Lindisfarne was moved to Durham and the bishop's title became Bishop of Durham.

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