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Headda (died
c. 721) was a medieval
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 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and Wes ...
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Headda was consecrated in 691 and died between 716 and 727.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 218] He held the
see of Leicester along with Lichfield.
[ In 706 Headda consecrated the new church constructed at ]Crowland
Crowland (modern usage) or Croyland (medieval era name and the one still in ecclesiastical use; cf. la, Croilandia) is a town in the South Holland district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between Peterborough and Spalding. Crowland ...
by Guthlac
Saint Guthlac of Crowland ( ang, Gūðlāc; la, Guthlacus; 674 – 3 April 714 CE) was a Christian hermit and saint from Lincolnshire in England. He is particularly venerated in the Fens of eastern England.
Life
Guthlac was the son of Penwalh ...
.[Stenton ''Anglo-Saxon England'' pp. 49–50.]
Prior to Headda's consecration, he had "almost certainly" been abbot of the monastery at Breedon, in Leicestershire, before which he may also have been a monk at Medeshamstede
Medeshamstede was the name of Peterborough in the Anglo-Saxon period. It was the site of a monastery founded around the middle of the 7th century, which was an important feature in the kingdom of Mercia from the outset. Little is known of its ...
.[Kelly ''Charters of Peterborough Abbey'' pp. 71–75]
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7th-century English bishops
8th-century English bishops
Bishops of Leicester
Anglo-Saxon bishops of Lichfield
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