Tags: Christian Bishop.
Chad (Old English: Ceadda; died 2 March 672) was a prominent 7th century Anglo-Saxon churchman who became abbot of several monasteries Bishop of the Northumbrians and subsequently Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People. He was later canonised as a saint. He was the brother of Cedd also a saint. He features strongly in the work of Bede the Venerable and is credited together with Cedd with introducing Christianity to the Mercian kingdom.
