Chad of Mercia
Chad | |
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| Bishop of Northumbria | |
Stained glass depiction from Saint Chad's Church, Hanmer, Wrexham, Wales | |
| Appointed | 664 |
| Term ended | 669 |
| Predecessor | Paulinus |
| Successor | Wilfrid |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 664 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Unknown, but most likely in the 620s |
| Died | 2 March 672 Lichfield, Staffordshire |
| Buried | Lichfield Cathedral |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 2 March |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church Anglican Communion Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Attributes | Bishop, holding a triple-spired cathedral (Lichfield) |
| Patronage | Mercia; Lichfield |
| Shrines | Grave and shrine tower was discovered in 2003 under the east end of Lichfield Cathedral nave.
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Chad (died 2 March 672) 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.
He was the brother of Bishop Cedd, also a saint. He features strongly in the work of Bede and is credited, together with Bishop Wilfrid of Ripon, with introducing Christianity to the Mercian kingdom.