Chad of York

Chad of York

Saint Chad (also: Ceadda) (* around 623; † March 2, 672 in Lichfield ) was 664-669 second bishop of York .

Career

Chad was probably from Northumbria . He was the youngest of four brothers, of whom Cedd in particular should become famous. Together with Cedd he was trained as a clergyman by Abbot Aidan in Lindisfarne , after his death both went to Ireland in 651 to continue their training, where Chad met Egbert, who later became Abbot of Iona . His brother soon returned to England to work in Essex for proselytizing. Chad supported his brother when he built a monastery in Lastingham , Yorkshire in 658 . After Cedd died of the plague there in 664, Chad succeeded his brother as abbot of the monastery.

During this time the conflict about the membership of Northumbria to the Catholic or the Irish-Scottish Church came to a head, which was resolved at the Synod of Whitby in the Roman sense; As was to be expected from his career, Chad had taken the Irish-Scottish position. In the following period, however, there was a protracted dispute over the occupation of the diocese of York, which was to be re-established as part of the reorganization of the Northumbrian Church after the first local bishop Paulinus had to flee in 633. After Chad was initially intended for the post, Wilfrid , who had starred at the Whitby Synod, insisted that he himself be ordained Bishop of York. Chad wanted to take the matter to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Deusdedit , but upon arriving there learned that Deusdedit had recently succumbed to the plague. His designated successor, Wighart, was on his way to Rome to obtain his own ordination, and Bishop Ithamar of Rochester was also dying. The only available Anglo-Saxon bishop was Bishop Wine of Dorchester in Wessex , but since three bishops were required for proper ordination, Chad also brought in bishops from the Welsh Church so he could be ordained Bishop of York in Dorchester Cathedral.

In 666 returned Wilfrid, who after Compiegne had traveled to be consecrated by Roman Catholic bishops back to England, whereupon Wilfrid with the Abbey Ripon satisfied had and saw it as a result its task in Mercia to proselytize . In 669, however, Theodor von Tarsus , the Archbishop of Canterbury, decided the dispute over the York bishopric in favor of Wilfrid, so that Chad had to resign. As a replacement he accepted the office of bishop in Lichfield , the new diocese for Mercia, where he supported King Wulfhere in the Christianization of Mercias and where he died on March 2, 672. The death anniversary of the later canonized Chad is also his memorial day.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Ceadda (new English Chad). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 964.

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predecessor	Office	successor
Paulinus	Bishop of York 664–669	Wilfrid
Jaruman	Bishop of Lichfield 669–672	Winfrith