Æthelwold (bishop of Lindisfarne)

Æthelwold of Lindisfarne (died 740) (also spelled Aethelwald, Ethelwold, etc.) was Bishop of Lindisfarne from 721 until 740.^[1]

Æthelwold contributed to the production of the Lindisfarne Gospels: he took the raw manuscripts that his predecessor Eadfrith had prepared and had Billfrith bind them so that they could be read easily.^[2] Æthelwold was one of the disciples and assistants of St. Cuthbert. He is the last Bishop of Lindisfarne to have been revered as a saint. He is often mistaken with his near contemporary, Æthelwold of Farne.

Citations

1. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 219
2. Patron Saints Index Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine accessed on August 29, 2007

References

• Patron Saints Index accessed on August 29, 2007
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

External links

• Æthelwald 15 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
• Catholic Online Saints and Angels

8th-century Bishop of Lindisfarne and saint