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Eadberht of Lindisfarne

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Appointed
  
688

Died
  
May 6, 698 AD

Feast day
  
6 May


Name
  
Eadberht Lindisfarne

Predecessor
  
Cuthbert

Role
  
Saint

Term ended
  
May 6, 698 AD

Denomination
  
Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church

Successor
  
Eadfrith of Lindisfarne

Eadberht of Lindisfarne (died 6 May 698), also known as Saint Eadberht, was Bishop of Lindisfarne, England, from 688 until his death on 6 May 698. He is notable as having founded the holy shrine to his predecessor Saint Cuthbert on the island of Lindisfarne, a place that was to become a centre of great pilgrimage in later years.

It is said that Eadberht favoured poverty and long periods of solitude and devotion as part of his service in the bishopric. When he died he was buried in the same location from which Cuthbert's body had been exhumed earlier the same year.

References

Eadberht of Lindisfarne Wikipedia