2 March. 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Mr. (Bp.) Chad
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March. 1662 Book of Common Prayer. Mr. (Bp.) Chad.
Chad, Bishop (Caedda).
By birth a Northumbrian, but brought up in Ireland, and at Lindisfarne under
Aidan, one of the representatives of the independent refounding of Christianity
in the North (after the expulsion of Paulinus, who had been sent to York as
missionary bishop from Canterbury in 625) by the Irish ("Scottish")
missionaries. Made Bishop of York, in rivalry to the absent Wilfrid (664), he
was deposed by Archbishop Theodore in favour of Wilfrid (669); and after a
brief retirement, established as Bishop in the kingdom of Mercia, at Lichfield,
where he died in 672. Bede gives a beautiful picture of his simple character
and saintly life and death. -- March 2nd.
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