Æthelwold (bishop of Lindisfarne) (original) (raw)

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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.

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

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

8th-century Bishop of Lindisfarne and saint