Diuma

Britain around 600

Diuma (also Dwyna and Duma ) was the first bishop of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia . At the same time he was also Bishop of the Kingdom of Lindsey and the Central Angling Area .

Diuma was an Irish cleric who first appeared in 653 when he was one of the priests who baptized Peada , the son of the pagan king of Mercia, Penda , before Peada's marriage to the daughter of the Northumbrian king Oswiu , Alhflaed .

After Penda's death in the Battle of Winwaed 655, Diuma was consecrated Bishop Mercias by Finan of Lindisfarne . However, the exact boundaries of the diocese can no longer be determined.

According to Beda , he did not rule for long. The exact date of Diuma's death is unknown, but it could not have been later than 659. Ceollach was his successor .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Beda, HE , III, 24
2. ↑ Beda, HE , III, 21
3. ^ FM Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England. P. 120
4. ↑ M. Gallyon: The Early Church in Wessex and Mercia. P. 86

literature

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• B. Colgrave and RAB Mynors (Eds.): Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Clarendon, Oxford 1969, ISBN 0-1982-2202-5 .

Secondary literature

• Steven Basset (Ed.): The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms . Leicester University Press, Leicester 1989, ISBN 0-7185-1317-7 .
• James Campbell (Ed.): The Anglo-Saxons . Phaidon, London 1982, ISBN 0-7148-2149-7 .
• Margaret Gallyon: The Early Church in Wessex and Mercia. Terence Dalton, Lavenham 1980, ISBN 0-9009-6358-1 .
• Nicholas J. Higham: The Convert Kings: Power and Religious Affiliation in Early Anglo-Saxon England. Manchester University Press, Manchester 1997, ISBN 0-7190-4827-3 .
• Frank M. Stenton: Anglo-Saxon England . 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971, ISBN 0-1928-0139-2 .
• Ian W. Walker: Mercia and the Making of England . Sutton, Stroud 2000, ISBN 0-7509-2131-5 .

See also

• Celtic church

predecessor	Office	successor
-	Bishop of Mercia 655–658	Ceollach