Cedd | |
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Bishop of London | |
Installed | c. 654 |
Term ended | 664 |
Predecessor | Mellitus |
Successor | Wine |
Personal details | |
Born | c. 620 |
Died | Lastingham | 26 October 664
Sainthood | |
Feast day | 26 October, 7 January (Orthodox Church) |
Venerated in | Catholic Church; Orthodox Church; Anglicanism |
Title as Saint | Evangelist of the Middle Angles and East Saxons |
Attributes | Bishop holding a model of the church at Bradwell-on-Sea |
Patronage | Essex; Lastingham; interpreters |
Shrines | Lastingham. Shrine destroyed in Danish period but corresponding to the crypt of the present parish church |
Cedd (Latin: Cedda, Ceddus; c. 620 – 26 October 664) was an Anglo-Saxon monk and bishop from the Kingdom of Northumbria. He was an evangelist of the Middle Angles and East Saxons in England and a significant participant in the Synod of Whitby, a meeting which resolved important differences within the Church in England. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, Anglicanism, and the Orthodox Church.