Putta
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| name = Putta
|type= bishop
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| religion =Christian
| title = Bishop of Hereford
| appointed = 676
| ended = between 676 and 688
| predecessor = new diocese
| successor =Tyrhtel
| ordination =
| other_post = Bishop of Rochester
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| death_date =c. 688
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Putta (died c. 688) was a medieval Bishop of Rochester and probably the first Bishop of Hereford. Some modern historians say that the two Puttas were separate individuals.Sims-Williams "Putta (d. c.688)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Bede says that in 676, Putta was driven from Rochester by King Æthelred of Mercia,Smith "Early Community" English Historical Review p. 295 or perhaps abandoning it,Brooks Early History p. 73 he fixed himself at Hereford (said to have been the centre of a diocese as early as the 6th century) and refounded Hereford Cathedral. He is thus recorded as Bishop of Uuestor Elih and may not have actually held the office of Bishop of Hereford, although was considered to have done so by about 800.{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}} After he left Rochester, Theodore of Tarsus, the Archbishop of Canterbury appointed Cwichelm as bishop of that see.
The medieval chronicler Bede says Putta learned Roman Chant from students of Pope Gregory the Great, and later taught this to the Mercians.Kirby Making of Early England p. 210Blair World of Bede p. 170 The modern historian Henry Mayr-Harting describes Putta as "a mild old music master".Mayr-Harting Coming of Christianity p. 131
The usual dates given for Putta's time at Rochester are thought to have been about 669 to 676.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221 His time at Hereford is considered to have started in 676 and ended sometime between 676 and 688.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 217 He died about 688.
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References
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- {{cite book |author=Blair, Peter Hunter|author-link= Peter Hunter Blair |title=The World of Bede |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1990 |edition=Reprint of 1970 |isbn=0-521-39819-3 }}
- {{cite book |author=Brooks, Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Brooks (historian) |title=The Early History of the Church of Canterbury: Christ Church from 597 to 1066 |publisher=Leicester University Press |location=London |year=1984 |isbn=0-7185-0041-5 }}
- {{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, UK |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
- {{cite book |author=Kirby, D. P. |title= The Making of Early England |year=1967 |publisher=Schocken Books |location=New York|edition=Reprint |oclc= 399516}}
- {{cite book |author=Mayr-Harting, Henry| author-link= Henry Mayr-Harting |title=The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |location=University Park, PA |year=1991 |isbn=0-271-00769-9 }}
- {{cite ODNB | author= Sims-Williams, Patrick |title=Putta |year= 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/22912}}
- {{cite journal |author=Smith, R. A. L. |date=September 1945 |title= The Early Community of St. Andrew at Rochester, 604-c. 1080 |journal= The English Historical Review |volume=60 | issue=238 |pages=289–299 |doi=10.1093/ehr/LX.CCXXXVIII.289 |jstor= 556594}}
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External links
- {{PASE|864|Putta 1}} (Bishop of Rochester); see also {{PASE|17782|Putta 2|nm=1}}, Bishop of Hereford
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{{s-ttl| title=Bishop of Rochester | years=c. 669–676}}
{{s-aft| after=Cwichhelm }}
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{{s-ttl| title=Bishop of Hereford | years=676–c. 682}}
{{s-aft| after=Tyrhtel }}
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{{Bishops of Rochester}}
{{Bishops of Hereford}}
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{{short description|7th-century Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of Rochester}}
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