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SAINT CHAD [CEADDA] (d. 672)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 786 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SAINT See also:CHAD [CEADDA] (d. 672)  , See also:brother of Cedd, whom he succeeded as See also:abbot at Lastingham, was consecrated See also:bishop of the Northumbrians by See also:Wine, the See also:West Saxon bishop, at the See also:request of See also:Oswio in 664 . On the return of See also:Wilfrid from See also:France, where he had been sent to be consecrated to the same see, a dispute of course arose, which was settled by See also:Theodore in favour of Wilfrid after three years had passed . See also:Chad thereupon retired to Lastingham, whence with the permission of Oswio he was summoned by See also:Wulfhere of See also:Mercia to succeed his bishop Jaruman, who died 667 . Chad built a monastery at See also:Barrow in See also:Lincoln-See also:shire and fixed his see at See also:Lichfield . He died after he had held his bishopric in Mercia two and a See also:half years, and was succeeded by Wynfrith . See also:Bede gives a beautiful See also:character of Chad . See Bede's Hist . Eccl. edited by C . Plummer, iii . 23, 24, 28; iv . 2, 3 (See also:Oxford, 1896) ; See also:Eddius, Vita Wilfridi, xiv., xv. edited by J . Raine, Rolls See also:Series (See also:London, 1879) .

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