__NOTOC__ Eadhæd was a medieval

Bishop of Lindsey The Bishop of Lindsey was a prelate who administered an Anglo-Saxon diocese between the 7th and 11th centuries. The episcopal title took its name after the ancient Kingdom of Lindsey. History The diocese of Lindsey (Lindine) was established whe ...

and sole

Bishop of Ripon The Bishop of Ripon is an episcopal title which takes its name after the city of Ripon in North Yorkshire, England. The bishop is one of the area bishops of the Diocese of Leeds in the Province of York. The area bishop of Ripon has oversight o ...

in the Medieval era. Eadhæd was a companion of

Chad of Mercia Chad of Mercia (died 2 March 672) was a prominent 7th-century Anglo-Saxon Catholic monk who became abbot of several monasteries, Bishop of the Northumbrians and subsequently Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People. He was later canonised ...

.Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 91 He was consecrated in 678. He was expelled from Lindsey and was made Bishop of Ripon around 679.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 219 This was part of the process whereby Bishop

Wilfrid Wilfrid ( – 709 or 710) was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and ...

of York's large diocese was broken into three parts, with new bishoprics established at York, Hexham and Ripon.Higham ''(Re-)reading Bede'' pp. 159–160 Along with Eadhæd, Bosa was appointed to York and Eata was appointed to Hexham.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 217Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 224 The medieval chronicler

Bede Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom ...

, in his work ''

Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum The ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'' ( la, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum), written by Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict b ...

'', barely mentions Eadhæd outside of the division of the diocese. It appears that the see of Ripon was especially created to find a place for Eadhæd after his expulsion from Lindsey, for bishops were not usually appointed to that see.Farmer "Saint Wilfrid" ''Saint Wilfrid at Hexham'' p. 59 footnote 55

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