Chad of Mercia
Archbishop of York; Bishop of Lichfield
b. c. 634 · d. 2 Mar 672
3rd Archbishop of York · c. 664–c. 669
Offices
- Archbishop of York № 3 · c. 664 – c. 669
Chad was a prominent 7th-century Anglo-Saxon monk. He was an abbot, Bishop of the Northumbrians and then Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People. After his death he was known as a saint.
Related people
- Wine consecrated by · traditional
- Aidan of Lindisfarne disciple of · traditional
- Cedd sibling of · traditional
- Wilfrid preceded · inferred
Commemorated
Places
- Kingdom of Northumbria birth
- Lichfield Cathedral burial
- Lichfield death
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum 1 claim — Registrum Sacrum Anglicanum — the see of York