Putta

Family: Rochester · Role: bishop · First appears: Book IV · Chap. II

Life events

• c. 668 · Theodore ordained Putta bishop of Rochester.(Book IV · Chap. II · 📍 Rochester)
  • With: Theodore
  • “he ordained a man named Putta, trained rather in the teaching of the Church and more addicted to simplicity of life than active in worldly affairs, but specially skilful in Church music, after the Roman use, which he had learned from the disciples of the blessed Pope Gregory.”
• 670 · Theodore assembled the bishops and teachers at Herutford to deliberate on the Church’s affairs.(Book IV · Chap. V · 📍 Herutford)
  • With: Theodore Bisi Wilfrid Leutherius Wynfrid
  • “We met on the 24th day of September, the first indiction, at the place which is called Herutford: I, Theodore, albeit unworthy, appointed by the Apostolic see bishop of the church of Canterbury; our fellow priest and brother, the most reverend Bisi, bishop of the East Angles; and with us also our brother and fellow priest, Wilfrid, bishop of the nation of the Northumbrians, represented by his proxies.”
• 673 · The synod defined ten church articles, which the bishops confirmed by subscription.(Book IV · Chap. V · 📍 Herutford)
  • With: Theodore Bisi Wilfrid Leutherius Wynfrid Titillus
  • “These articles being thus discussed and defined in common, to the end, that for the future, no stumbling-block of contention might arise from any one of us, or that things be falsely set forth, it was thought fit that every one of us should, by the subscription of his own hand, confirm all the particulars so defined. Which judgement, as defined by us, I dictated to be written by Titillus our notary.”
• 676 · Sexwulf granted Putta a church and land, where Putta ended his days.(Book IV · Chap. XII)
  • With: Sexwulf
  • “he went to Sexwulf, bishop of the Mercians, and having received of him a certain church, and a small piece of land, ended his days there in peace;”

Book IV · Chap. II

• sworn: Theodore (Theodore appointed and ordained Putta as bishop of Rochester.) “But when Theodore came to the city of Rochester, where the bishopric had been long vacant by the death of Damian, he ordained a man named Putta, trained rather in the teaching of the Church and more addicted to simplicity of life than active in worldly affairs, but specially skilful in Church music, after the Roman use, which he had learned from the disciples of the blessed Pope Gregory.”

Book IV · Chap. V

• with Theodore (Theodore addressed and asked Putta to agree to the synod's rules.) “I, Theodore, albeit unworthy, appointed by the Apostolic see bishop of the church of Canterbury; our fellow priest and brother, the most reverend Bisi, bishop of the East Angles; and with us also our brother and fellow priest, Wilfrid, bishop of the nation of the Northumbrians, represented by his proxies. There were present also our brothers and fellow priests, Putta, bishop of the Kentish castle, called Rochester; Leutherius, bishop of the West Saxons, and Wynfrid, bishop of the province of the Mercians. When we were all met together, and had sat down in order, I said, ‘I beseech you, most dear brothers, for the fear and love of our Redeemer, that we may all treat in common on behalf of our faith; to the end that whatsoever has been decreed and defined by holy and approved fathers, may be inviolably observed by all of us.’ This and much more I spoke tending to charity and the preservation of the unity of the Church; and when I had ended my preface, I asked every one of them in order, whether they consented to observe the things that had been of old canonically decreed by the fathers?”

Book IV · Chap. XII

• patron: Sexwulf “he went to Sexwulf, bishop of the Mercians, and having received of him a certain church, and a small piece of land, ended his days there in peace”

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