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Anglo-Saxon Diocese of Whithorn

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created several bishoprics out of Northumbrian territory with the intent that they be subordinate to Canterbury rather than to York. York resisted this development, notably by establishing a subordinate bishopric in Whithorn, which at that time was under Northumbrian rule. Specifically, Whithorn
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had been established. The seventh century creation of Whithorn briefly took the number of bishoprics in the north of Northumbria to four before returning to the eighth century pattern of Lindisfarne, Hexham and Whithorn.
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appears to have briefly been a diocese from 681 to 681 and then from c. 730. The subordination of Whithorn to York was reinforced when York was elevated to an archbishopric by
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in the late 4th century to early/mid-5th century. Christianity flourished in Galloway in the 6th century and there was possibly a 6th-century
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While there was some relationship between Northumbrian Christianity and that in Galloway in the 7th century, following the repudiation of
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is described as the successor to Beadwulf by some accounts. His inclusion on the list as a Bishop of Whithorn is not credible.
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According to Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical tradition, a Pictish church called
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The Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, The Power Struggles from Hengist to Ecgberht
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John Godfrey holds that the Anglo-Saxon stone crosses at
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states that the diocese failed due to incursions by the
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in Scotland, during the 8th century AD. The first known
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Bede: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Index

Northumbrian
diocese
Anglo-Saxon Church
Whithorn
Galloway
Bishop of Whithorn
Pehthelm
Candida Casa
Ninian
Celtic Christianity
Synod of Whitby
Archbishop of Canterbury
Pope Gregory III

Kingdom of Northumbria
Bishopric of Hexham
Bishopric of Lindisfarne
Bishopric of Abercorn
Pehthelm
Frithwald
Pehtwine
Æthelberht of Whithorn
bishopric of Hexham
Beadwulf
Heathored
William of Malmesbury
Picts
Scots
Aberlady
Abercorn

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