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The Bishop of Lindsey was a prelate

Prelate

A prelate is a high-ranking member of the clergy who is an ordinary or who ranks in precedence with ordinaries. The word derives from the Latin prælatus, the past participle of præferre, which means "carry before", "be set above or over" or "prefer"; hence, a prelate is one set over others.-Related...

who administered an Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxons

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diocese

Diocese

A diocese is the district or see under the supervision of a bishop. It is divided into parishes.An archdiocese is more significant than a diocese. An archdiocese is presided over by an archbishop whose see may have or had importance due to size or historical significance...

between the 7th and 11th centuries. The episcopal

Episcopal polity

Episcopal polity is a form of church governance that is hierarchical in structure with the chief authority over a local Christian church resting in a bishop...

title took its name after the ancient Kingdom of Lindsey

Kingdom of Lindsey

Lindsey or Linnuis is the name of a petty Anglo-Saxon kingdom, absorbed into Northumbria in the 7th century.It lay between the Humber and the Wash, forming its inland boundaries from the course of the Witham and Trent rivers , and the Foss Dyke between...

History

The diocese of Lindsey

Lindsey

Lindsey was a unit of local government until 1974 in Lincolnshire, England, covering the northern part of the county. The Isle of Axholme, which is on the west side of the River Trent, has normally formed part of it...

(Lindine) was established when the large Diocese of Mercia was divided in the late 7th century into the bishoprics of Lichfield

Bishop of Lichfield

The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury.The diocese covers 4,516 km² of the counties of Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands. The bishop's seat is located in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed...

and Leicester

Bishop of Leicester

The Bishop of Leicester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Leicester in the Province of Canterbury.The first bishops of Leicester were originally prelates who administered an Anglo-Saxon diocese between the 7th and 9th centuries...

(for Mercia

Mercia

Mercia was one of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy. It was centred on the valley of the River Trent and its tributaries in the region now known as the English Midlands...

itself), Worcester

Bishop of Worcester

The Bishop of Worcester is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England. He is the head of the Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury...

(for the Hwicce

Hwicce

The Hwicce were one of the peoples of Anglo-Saxon England. The exact boundaries of their kingdom are uncertain, though it is likely that they coincided with those of the old Diocese of Worcester, founded in 679–80, the early bishops of which bore the title Episcopus Hwicciorum...

), Hereford

Bishop of Hereford

The Bishop of Hereford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Hereford in the Province of Canterbury.The see is in the City of Hereford where the seat is located at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary and Saint Ethelbert which was founded as a cathedral in 676.The Bishop's residence is...

(for the Magonsæte), and Lindsey (for the Lindisfaras

Kingdom of Lindsey

).

The bishop's seat

Cathedra

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at Sidnacester (Syddensis) has been placed, by various commentators, at Caistor

Caistor

See Caistor St Edmund for the Roman settlement in Norfolk or Caister-on-Sea for the town in NorfolkCaistor is a town and civil parish situated in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. As its name implies, it was originally a Roman castrum or fortress...

, Louth

Louth, Lincolnshire

Louth is a market town and civil parish within the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England.-Geography:Known as the "capital of the Lincolnshire Wolds", it is situated where the ancient trackway Barton Street crosses the River Lud, and has a total resident population of 15,930.The Greenwich...

, Horncastle and, most often, at Stow

Stow, Lincolnshire

Stow is a small village and civil parish within the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It is eleven miles northwest of the city of Lincoln and six miles southeast of Gainsborough, and has a total resident population of 355.Stow dates back to Roman times and in the...

, all in present-day Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, England. More recent research has concluded, however, that the seat was, in fact, the original foundation in Lincoln

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of 85,595; the 2001 census gave the entire area of Lincoln a population of 120,779....

itself.

After an interruption by the Danish

Denmark

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Viking

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invasions and establishment of the Danelaw

Danelaw

The Danelaw, as recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , is a historical name given to the part of England in which the laws of the "Danes" held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons. It is contrasted with "West Saxon law" and "Mercian law". The term has been extended by modern historians to...

in the 9th century, the see

Episcopal See

An episcopal see is, in the original sense, the official seat of a bishop. This seat, which is also referred to as the bishop's cathedra, is placed in the bishop's principal church, which is therefore called the bishop's cathedral...

of Lindsey was resumed in the mid-10th century until it was united with the bishopric of Dorchester in the early 11th century.

List of bishops

Bishops of Lindsey
From	Until	Incumbent	Notes
678	c. 679	Eadhæd	Expelled, and became Bishop of Ripon Bishop of Ripon and Leeds The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Ripon and Leeds in the Province of York.Though one ancient Bishop of Ripon is known, the modern diocese dates from 1836... ; also known as Eadhedus, Eadheath or Eadhaed
c. 680	? 692	Æthelwine	Possibly died in 692; also known as Ethelwine or Elwin
? 693	c.716/731	Edgar	Possibly became bishop in 693; died sometime 716 and 731; also known as Eadgar
c.716/731	731	Cyneberht	Became bishop sometime between 716 and 731; also known as Embercus or Kinebertus
733	750	Alwig	Also known as Alwigh
750	765	Ealdwulf	Also known as Aldwulf or Eadulphus
c.765/767	796	Ceolwulf	Also known as Ceolulfus
796	c.836/839	Eadwulf Eadwulf of Lindsey Eadwulf was a medieval Bishop of Lindsey.He was consecrated in 796. He died between 836 and 839. His profession of obedience to Æthelhard, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is the first surviving profession to Canterbury. It notes that he had been a pupil of Æthelhard, and is undated...	Consecrated in 796; died sometime between 836 and 839
c.836/839	c.862/866 (or later)	Beorhtred Beorhtred Beorhtred was a medieval Bishop of Lindsey.He was consecrated between 836 and 839. He died between 862 and 866, perhaps later.-External links:*...
c.862/866	c.866/869	Eadbald Eadbald of Lindsey Eadbald was a medieval Bishop of Lindsey.He was consecrated between 862 and 866. He died between 866 and 869. His successor is uncertain, who could be either Burgheard or Eadberht.-Notes:...
c.866/869	after 875	Burgheard Burgheard Burgheard was a medieval Bishop of Lindsey.He was consecrated between 866 and 869 and died sometime after that.-References:... or Eadberht Eadberht of Lindsey Eadberht was a medieval Bishop of Lindsey.He was consecrated between 866 and 869. He died after 875.-References:...
after 875	before 953	During this period, the episcopal succession was interrupted by 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... Viking Viking The term Viking is customarily used to refer to the Norse explorers, warriors, merchants, and pirates who raided, traded, explored and settled in wide areas of Europe, Asia and the North Atlantic islands from the late 8th to the mid-11th century.These Norsemen used their famed longships to... invasions
before 953	c.971/975	Leofwine	Also became bishop of Dorchester in 971; died between 971 and 975
before 996	after 1004	Sigeferth Sigeferth Sigeferth was a medieval Bishop of Lindsey.He was consecrated before 996. He died after 1004. This was a revival of the see, which had lapsed during the Danish invasions.-External links:*...
before 1009	after 1011	(*? Ælfstan*)	Possibly was bishop
By the early 11th century, the see Episcopal See An episcopal see is, in the original sense, the official seat of a bishop. This seat, which is also referred to as the bishop's cathedra, is placed in the bishop's principal church, which is therefore called the bishop's cathedral... of Lindsey had been merged with the bishopric of Dorchester

External links

Episcopal succession in Anglo-Saxon England

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