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(Redirected from Hedda of Wessex) Bishop of Winchester (died 705)

Saint
Hædde
Bishop of Winchester
Appointed676
Term endedprobably 7 July 705
PredecessorLeuthere
SuccessorDaniel
Personal details
BornHeadingley, West Yorkshire
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 (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester.

Life

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

Notes

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

Citations

  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.

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Christian titles
Preceded byLeuthere Bishop of Winchester
676–705
Succeeded byDaniel
Saints of Anglo-Saxon England
British / Welsh
East Anglian
East Saxon
Frisian,
Frankish
and Old Saxon
Irish and Scottish
Kentish
Mercian
Northumbrian
Roman
South Saxon
West Saxon
Unclear origin
Bishops of Winchester
Early Medieval
634–1006
Arms of the Bishop of Winchester
High Medieval
1006–1304
Late Medieval
1305–1501
Early Modern
1501–1820
Late Modern
1820–current
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