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Bede claimed he was a bishop (" Galliarum Episcopus "), who, according to Bede's history of the Church in England ( V, 15 ), was shipwrecked on the shore of Iona, Scotland on his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and was hospitably received by Adamnan, the abbot of the island monastery of Iona from 679 to 704, to whom he gave a detailed narrative of his travels, from which Adamnan, with aid from some further sources, was able to produce a descriptive work in three books, dealing with Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and other places in Palestine, and briefly with Alexandria and Constantinople, called De Locis Sanctis (" Concerning the sacred places ").
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The kings of the Picts when Bede was writing were Bridei and Nechtan, sons of Der Ilei, who indeed claimed the throne through their mother Der Ilei, daughter of an earlier Pictish king.
In rural areas folklore often claimed this condition was not just peculiar to cattle, but extended also to human twins ; this belief perpetuated for generations, as was mentioned in the writings of Bede.
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The main argument was put forward by Grosjean, who claimed that Bede had the consecration date wrong, as 26 May was Maundy Thursday in 655, not a date that would normally have been chosen for a consecration.
Bede claimed that relations between the Picts and Northumbria were peaceful in his time.
The Anglo-Saxon writer Bede claimed in his work Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( 731 ) that Old Saxony was the area between the Elbe, the Weser and the Eider in the north and north west of modern Germany and was a territory beyond the borders of the Roman Empire.
Patrick Wormald has claimed that England was a nation by the time of the Venerable Bede, who wrote the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Ecclesiastical History of the English People ) around 730.
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As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.
Ælle was the first king recorded by the 8th century chronicler Bede to have held " imperium ", or overlordship, over other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
Bede states that Theodore, a Greek, was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 668, and he taught Greek.
Bede ( ; ; 672 / 673 – 26 May 735 ), also referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede (), was an English monk at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow ( see Monkwearmouth-Jarrow ), both in the Kingdom of Northumbria.
In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).
Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work with the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers contributed significantly to English Christianity, making the writings much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons.
It was completed in about 731, and Bede implies that he was then in his fifty-ninth year, which would give a likely birth date of about 672 – 673.
Bede says nothing of his origins, but his connections with men of noble ancestry suggest that his own family was well-to-do.
Bede's first abbot was Benedict Biscop, and the names " Biscop " and " Beda " both appear in a king list of the kings of Lindsey from around 800, further suggesting that Bede came from a noble family.
The name " Bede " was not a common one at the time.
Some manuscripts of the Life of Cuthbert, one of Bede's own works, mention that Cuthbert's own priest was named Bede ; it is possible that this priest is the other name listed in the Liber Vitae.
The name probably derives from the Old English bēd, or prayer ; if Bede was given the name at his birth, then his family had probably always planned for him to enter the clergy.
Bede does not say whether it was already intended at that point that he would be a monk.
Monkwearmouth's sister monastery at Jarrow was founded by Ceolfrith in 682, and Bede probably transferred to Jarrow with Ceolfrith that year.
The young boy was almost certainly Bede, who would have been about 14.
When Bede was about 17 years old, Adomnan, the abbot of Iona Abbey, visited Monkwearmouth and Jarrow.
In about 692, in Bede's nineteenth year, Bede was ordained a deacon by his diocesan bishop, John, who was bishop of Hexham.
Bede was a teacher as well as a writer ; he enjoyed music, and was said to be accomplished as a singer and as a reciter of poetry in the vernacular.
Translations of this phrase differ, and it is quite uncertain whether Bede intended to say that he was cured of a speech problem, or merely that he was inspired by the saint's works.
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Wilfrid had been present at the exhumation of her body in 695, and Bede questioned the bishop about the exact circumstances of the body and asked for more details of her life, as Wilfrid had been her advisor.
In 733, Bede travelled to York, to visit Ecgbert, who was then bishop of York.
Decisive steps to Christianise Mercia were taken by Chad ( Latinised by Bede as Ceadda ), the fifth bishop to operate in Mercia.
While at York, Wilfrid was considered the " bishop of the Northumbrian peoples "; Bede records that Wilfrid's diocese was contiguous with the area ruled by Oswiu.
A plague the same year caused Sigehere and his people to recant their Christianity, and according to Bede, Wulfhere sent Jaruman, the bishop of Lichfield, to reconvert the East Saxons.
Jaruman was not the first bishop of Lichfield ; Bede mentions a predecessor, Trumhere, but nothing is known about Trumhere's activities or who appointed him.
* Eata, ' bishop of Bernicia ', with his seat at Hexham and / or Lindisfarne, died 685, succeeded by John of Beverley ( Bede, Ecclesiastical History IV. 12 )
* Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, 685, after Tumbert's deposition, moving his seat to Lindisfarne to become bishop of Lindisfarne ( Bede, IV. 28 )
Bede tells us that Colmán, the bishop of the Northumbrians at the time of the Synod, had left for Scotland after the Synod went against him.
Bede tells us that Alfrid sought a bishop for himself and his own people.
According to Bede, Tuda had been succeeded as abbot of Lindisfarne by Eata, who had been elevated to the rank of bishop.
Bede points out that " at that time there was no other bishop in all Britain canonically ordained except Wini " and the latter had been installed irregularly by the king of the West Saxons.
According to Bede, Theodore was so impressed by Chad's show of humility that he confirmed his ordination as bishop, while insisting he step down from his position.
Bede tells us that Chad was actually the third bishop sent to Wulfhere, making him the fifth bishop of the Mercians.
In other words, Bede considered that Chad's two years as bishop were decisive in Christianising Mercia.
They were impressed by his powers and agreed to consult their other bishop colleagues, after which another conference with Augustine would be held, the location of which is not recorded by Bede.
The church's most prominent early leader was John Bede Polding, a Benedictine monk who was Sydney's first bishop ( and then archbishop ) from 1835 to 1877.
Bede states: At length the king, who understood none but the language of the Saxons, grown weary of that bishop's barbarous tongue, brought into the province another bishop of his own nation, whose name was Wini, who had been ordained in France ; and dividing his province into two dioceses, appointed this last his episcopal see in the city of Winchester, by the Saxons called Wintancestir.
The English monk and historian Bede mentions Abercorn as the site of a monastery and seat of Bishop Trumwine who was the only bishop of the Northumbrian see of the Picts.
Edward Bede Clancy, AC ( born 13 December 1923 ) is an Australian Roman Catholic bishop.
The historian Nicholas Brooks points out that although Bede may have indeed misread Vitalian's letter, Oswiu had other reasons for involving himself in Deusdedit's replacement, not least of which was a concern that the exiled Northumbrian bishop Wilfrid, who was in Kent and Mercia at the time, not be selected as the new archbishop.
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