Eata

Also known as: Abbot Eata · Family: Mailros monastery · Role: abbot · First appears: Book III · Chap. XXVI

Life events

664 · Eata was appointed abbot over the brethren remaining at Lindisfarne after the Scots departed.(Book III · Chap. XXVI · 📍 Lindisfarne)
- With: Oswy Colman
- “But Eata, who was abbot of the monastery called Mailros, a man most reverend and gentle, was appointed abbot over the brethren that chose to remain in the church of Lindisfarne, when the Scots went away. It is said that Colman, upon his departure, requested and obtained this of King Oswy”
678 · Theodore ordained Eadhaed, Bosa, and Eata as bishops at York.(Book IV · Chap. XII · 📍 York)
- With: Theodore Eadhaed Bosa
- “Eadhaed, Bosa, and Eata, were ordained at York by archbishop Theodore;”
c. 684 · Eata transferred Cuthbert to Lindisfarne to instruct its brethren as provost.(Book IV · Chap. XXVII · 📍 Lindisfarne)
- With: Cuthbert
- “his most reverend abbot, Eata, removed him to the isle of Lindisfarne, that he might there also, by his authority as provost and by the example of his own practice, instruct the brethren in the observance of regular discipline;”

mentor: Aidan (Aidan received Eata for instruction in the faith.) “because Eata was one of Aidan’s twelve boys of the English nation, whom he received in the early years of his episcopate, to be instructed in Christ”
sworn: Oswy (Oswy granted or effected Eata’s appointment as abbot.) “But Eata, who was abbot of the monastery called Mailros, a man most reverend and gentle, was appointed abbot over the brethren that chose to remain in the church of Lindisfarne, when the Scots went away. It is said that Colman, upon his departure, requested and obtained this of King Oswy”

sworn: Theodore “Eadhaed, Bosa, and Eata, were ordained at York by archbishop Theodore”

liege: Cuthbert “This venerable servant of the Lord, having thus spent many years in the monastery of Mailros, and there become conspicuous by great tokens of virtue, his most reverend abbot, Eata, removed him to the isle of Lindisfarne, that he might there also, by his authority as provost and by the example of his own practice, instruct the brethren in the observance of regular discipline;”
pupil: Cuthbert “Cuthbert, humbly submitting himself to this man’s direction, from him received both a knowledge of the Scriptures, and an example of good works.”

with Boisil (Boisil served as provost under Abbot Eata.) “when the said Boisil was provost of the monastery of Mailros, under the Abbot Eata”

Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.