Aidan of Lindisfarne
Bishop of Lindisfarne; Saint
b. c. 590 · d. 31 Aug 651
Aidan of Lindisfarne was an Irish monk and missionary credited with converting the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity in Northumbria. He founded a ministry cathedral on the island of Lindisfarne, known as Lindisfarne Priory, served as its first bishop, and travelled ceaselessly throughout the countryside, spreading the gospel to both the Anglo-Saxon nobility and the socially disenfranchised.
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Commemorated
Places
- Connacht birth
- Iona residence
- Lindisfarne ministry
- Bamburgh death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
Memberships
- Lindisfarne Founder