__NOTOC__ Eadhæd was a medieval Bishop of Lindsey 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, in his work '' Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'', 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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