Bosa
Family: Northumbrians · Role: bishop · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XII
Life events
- 678 · Theodore ordained Eadhaed, Bosa, and Eata as bishops at York.(Book IV · Chap. XII · 📍 York)
- c. 705 · Bosa’s clergy brought up and instructed Acca from boyhood.(Book V · Chap. XX · 📍 York)
- With: Acca
- “For he was brought up from boyhood and instructed among the clergy of the most holy and beloved of God, Bosa, bishop of York.”
Book IV · Chap. XII
- sworn: Theodore “Eadhaed, Bosa, and Eata, were ordained at York by archbishop Theodore”
Book IV · Chap. XXIII
- mentor: Hilda “she obliged those who were under her direction to give so much time to reading of the Holy Scriptures, and to exercise themselves so much in works of justice, that many might readily be found there fit for the priesthood and the service of the altar. Indeed we have seen five from that monastery who afterwards became bishops, and all of them men of singular merit and sanctity, whose names were Bosa, Aetla, Oftfor, John, and Wilfrid.”
Book V · Chap. XX
- pupil: Acca (Acca was brought up and instructed among Bosa's clergy.) “For he was brought up from boyhood and instructed among the clergy of the most holy and beloved of God, Bosa, bishop of York.”
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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.