For the 8th century bishop of Hereford, see Ceadda of Hereford.
Saint
Chad
Bishop of York
Stained glass depiction from Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, New York
Appointed
664
Term ended
669
Predecessor
Paulinus
Successor
Wilfrid
Orders
Consecration
664
Personal details
Born
c. 634
Northumbria
Died
2 March 672 Lichfield, Staffordshire
Buried
Lichfield Cathedral
Sainthood
Feast day
2 March
Venerated in
Catholic Church Anglican Communion Eastern Orthodox Church
Attributes
Bishop, holding a triple-spired cathedral (Lichfield)
Patronage
Mercia; Lichfield
Shrines
Lichfield Cathedral, now destroyed. Modern shrine on site. Part of Saxon shrine was discovered in 2006.
St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, where bones attributed to Chad were installed in 1841.
Chad[a] (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 as a saint.
He was the brother of Cedd, also a saint. He features strongly in the work of the Venerable Bede and is credited, together with Cedd, with introducing Christianity to the Mercian kingdom.
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text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Chad, Saint". Media related to ChadofMercia at Wikimedia Commons Chad 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon...
When Chad was made Bishop ofMercia in 669, he moved his see from Repton to Lichfield, possibly because this was already a holy site, as the scene of martyrdoms...
birthplace of Samuel Johnson, the writer of the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language. The city's recorded history began when ChadofMercia arrived...
Mercia (/ˈmɜːrʃiə, -ʃə, -siə/, Old English: Miercna rīċe; Latin: Merciorum regnum) was one of the three main Anglic kingdoms founded after Sub-Roman Britain...
the kingdom of Northumbria and brought up on the island of Lindisfarne by Aidan of the Irish Church. He had three brothers: ChadofMercia (transcribed...
recorded son, Coenberht, the father of King Caedwalla of Wessex. His name is related to that of St ChadofMercia (spelt Ceadda in Bede's Ecclesiastical...
– Winifred Jarrow – Bede Leicester – Martin of Tours Lichfield – ChadofMercia Lincoln – Mary, Hugh of Lincoln Linlithgow – Michael Liverpool – Nicholas...
monastery of Lindisfarne, he travelled to Ireland to study. One of his acquaintances at this time was ChadofMercia. He settled at the monastery of Rath Melsigi...
Wulfhere or Wulfar (died 675) was King ofMercia from 658 until 675 AD. He was the first Christian king of all ofMercia, though it is not known when or how...
(Balochistan) Christian feast day: Agnes of Bohemia Angela of the Cross Blessed Charles the Good, Count of Flanders ChadofMercia (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion...
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Cynibil was one of four Northumbrian brothers named by Bede as prominent in the early Anglo-Saxon Church. The others were ChadofMercia, Cedd and Caelin...
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largest groups of peoples are the West Saxons (later Wessex), the East Angles and Mercians (later the Kingdom ofMercia), and the Kingdom of Kent. Smaller...
2 – ChadofMercia, Anglo-Saxon abbot August 21 – Kōbun, emperor of Japan (b. 648) Cenwalh, king of Wessex (approximate date) Jiang Ke, general of the...
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Boniface (Winfrid/Winfred) Winfred (bishop), bishop ofMercia and Lindsey, successor to ChadofMercia This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
Kingdom ofMercia was a battleground between conflicting religious ideologies. It is likely that the Anglian occupation ofMercia saw the displacement of, or...
as did Wihtberht,Willibrord, and Swithbert, Adalbert of Egmond, and ChadofMercia. Ecgbert of York founded a school, among whose students were the scholar...
renouncing Monothelitism. Athanasius II Baldoyo, patriarch of Antioch (d. 686) ChadofMercia, Anglo-Saxon abbot (d. 672) Cuthbert, Anglo-Saxon bishop (approximate...
Christian martyrs from the royal family ofMercia. They were said to have been baptized by Saint ChadofMercia, and their pagan father was said to have...
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