Hædde
{{Short description|Bishop of Winchester (died 705)}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2017}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2017}}
{{Infobox Christian leader
| honorific_prefix = Saint
| name = Hædde
| image =
| religion = Christian
| title = Bishop of Winchester
| appointed = 676
| ended = probably 7 July 705
| predecessor = Leuthere
| successor = Daniel
| birth_place = Headingley, West Yorkshire
| death_date = probably 7 July 705
| feast_day = 7 July
| venerated = Eastern Orthodoxy
Roman Catholicism
Anglican Communion
| saint_title = Bishop and Monk
| attributes =
| patronage =
| shrine = Old Minster,
Winchester Cathedral (destroyed)
| suppressed_date =
}}
Hædde{{efn|Or Hedda, Hedde, Haedda, Haeddi, Heddi, St Hædde}} (died 705) was a medieval monk and Bishop of Winchester.
Life
Hædde is believed to have been born in Headingley, Leeds, and became a monk of Whitby Abbey.Benedictine Monks of Ramsgate. The Book of Saints p.254Hunt. Dictionary of National Biography pp.361-362
He became bishop in 676 and died about 7 July 705,Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 223 although the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that he died in 703.Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 41 In the law code of King Ine of Wessex, the bishop is mentioned as contributing to the laws.Yorke Conversion of Britain p. 235 After his death, he was revered as a saint with a feast day of 7 July,{{cite web|url=http://saints.sqpn.com/sainth65.htm |title=Hedda |publisher=Patron Saint Index |access-date=31 December 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208163131/http://saints.sqpn.com/sainth65.htm |archive-date=8 February 2009 }} and his large diocese was split in two,Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 107 part of the area forming the Diocese of Sherborne.{{cite web |url=https://www.salisbury.anglican.org/whos-who/about-us/identity/history/?searchterm=history |title=The History of our Diocese |date=6 October 2017 |publisher=Diocese of Salisbury |access-date=4 July 2019 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190704094804/https://www.salisbury.anglican.org/whos-who/about-us/identity/history/?searchterm=history |archive-date=4 July 2019 }}
Notes
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Citations
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References
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- {{cite book|author=Benedictine Monks of St.Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate|title=The Book of Saints|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing PLC|location=London|isbn=0-71365300-0|year=2002|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/bookofsaints0000unse}}
- {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
- {{Cite DNB|wstitle=Heddi|last=Hunt|first=William|author-link=William Hunt (priest)|volume=25}}
- {{cite book |author=Kirby, D. P. |title=The Earliest English Kings |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |year=2000 |isbn=0-415-24211-8 }}
- {{cite book |author=Yorke, Barbara|author-link= Barbara Yorke |title=The Conversion of Britain: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain c. 600–800 |publisher=Pearson/Longman |location=London |year=2006 |isbn=0-582-77292-3 }}
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External links
- {{PASE|13012|Hædde 2}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070513033823/http://catholic-forum.com/saints/sainth65.htm Patron Saints Index: Hedda]
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Category:Bishops of Winchester
Category:People from Headingley
Category:8th-century Christian saints
Category:8th-century English bishops
Category:Year of birth unknown
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