Chad of Mercia

Saint Chad
Bishop of Northumbria
Stained glass depiction from Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, New York
Appointed	664
Term ended	669
Predecessor	Paulinus
Successor	Wilfrid
Orders
Consecration	664
Personal details
Born	Unknown, but most likely in the 620s. Northumbria
Died	2 March 672 Lichfield, Staffordshire
Buried	Lichfield Cathedral
Sainthood
Feast day	2 March
Venerated in	Catholic Church Anglican Communion Eastern Orthodox Church
Attributes	Bishop, holding a triple-spired cathedral (Lichfield)
Patronage	Mercia; Lichfield
Shrines	Grave and shrine tower was discovered in 2003 under the east end of Lichfield Cathedral nave. St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, where bones attributed to Chad were installed in 1841.

Chad^[a] (died 2 March 672) was a prominent 7th-century Anglo-Saxon Celtic monk. He was an abbot, Bishop of the Northumbrians and then Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey People. After his death he was known as a saint.

He was the brother of Bishop Cedd, also a saint. He features strongly in the work of the Venerable Bede and is credited, together with Bishop Wilfrid of Ripon, with introducing Christianity to the Mercian kingdom.
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