Birinus

Family: Church · Role: bishop · First appears: Book III · Chap. VII

Life events

c. 633 · Birinus converted the West Saxons during Cynegils's reign.(Book III · Chap. VII · 📍 Britain)
- With: Cynegils
- “At that time, the West Saxons, formerly called Gewissae, in the reign of Cynegils, received the faith of Christ, through the preaching of Bishop Birinus, who came into Britain”
c. 633 · Cynegils and Oswald gave Dorcic to Birinus for his episcopal see.(Book III · Chap. VII · 📍 Dorcic)
- With: Cynegils Oswald
- “The two kings gave to the bishop the city called Dorcic, there to establish his episcopal see”

with Pope Honorius (Honorius counselled Birinus and received his promise.) “Bishop Birinus, who came into Britain by the counsel of Pope Honorius; having promised in his presence that he would sow the seed of the holy faith in the farthest inland regions of the English, where no other teacher had been before him.”
sworn: Asterius “Hereupon at the bidding of the Pope he received episcopal consecration from Asterius, bishop of Genoa”
pupil: Cynegils “Now, as he was spreading the Gospel in the aforesaid province, it happened that when the king himself, having received instruction as a catechumen, was being baptized together with his people”
patron: Cynegils “The two kings gave to the bishop the city called Dorcic, there to establish his episcopal see”
patron: Oswald “The two kings gave to the bishop the city called Dorcic, there to establish his episcopal see”
sworn: Pope Honorius “Birinus, who came into Britain by the counsel of Pope Honorius; having promised in his presence that he would sow the seed of the holy faith in the farthest inland regions of the English, where no other teacher had been before him. Hereupon at the bidding of the Pope he received episcopal consecration from Asterius, bishop of Genoa”

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