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Hædde
Bishop of Winchester
Appointed676
Term endedprobably 7 July 705
PredecessorLeuthere
SuccessorDaniel
Personal details
Born
Diedprobably 7 July 705
DenominationChristian
Sainthood
Feast day7 July
Venerated inEastern Orthodoxy
Roman Catholicism
Anglican Communion
Title as SaintBishop and Monk
ShrinesOld Minster,
Winchester Cathedral (destroyed)

Hædde[a] (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester.

Life

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Hædde is believed to have been born in Headingley, Leeds, and became a monk of Whitby Abbey.[1][2] He became bishop in 676 and died about 7 July 705,[3] although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that he died in 703.[4] In the law code of King Ine of Wessex, the bishop is mentioned as contributing to the laws.[5] After his death, he was revered as a saint with a feast day of 7 July,[6] and his large diocese was split in two,[7] part of the area forming the Diocese of Sherborne.[8]

Notes

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  1. ^ Or Hedda, Hedde, Haedda, Haeddi, Heddi, St Hædde

Citations

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  1. ^ Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate. The Book of Saints p.254
  2. ^ Hunt. Dictionary of National Biography pp.361-362
  3. ^ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223
  4. ^ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 41
  5. ^ Yorke Conversion of Britain p. 235
  6. ^ "Hedda". Patron Saint Index. Archived from the original on 8 February 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
  7. ^ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 107
  8. ^ "The History of our Diocese". Diocese of Salisbury. 6 October 2017. Archived from the original on 4 July 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2019.

References

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Christian titles
Preceded by Bishop of Winchester
676–705
Succeeded by