Diuma

Family: Irish · Role: priest and bishop · First appears: Book III · Chap. XXI

Life events

c. 653 · Four priests preached Christianity in Peada’s province, converting many people from idolatry.(Book III · Chap. XXI)
- With: Cedd Adda Betti
- “The aforesaid priests, arriving in the province with the prince, preached the Word, and were heard willingly; and many, as well of the nobility as the common sort, renouncing the abominations of idolatry, were daily washed in the fountain of the faith.”
c. 653 · Finan ordained Diuma bishop over the Midland Angles and Mercians.(Book III · Chap. XXI)
- With: Finan
- “Diuma, one of the aforesaid four priests, was made bishop of the Midland Angles, as also of the Mercians, being ordained by Bishop Finan”
c. 653 · Diuma died after converting many people among the Midland Angles.(Book III · Chap. XXI · 📍 Infeppingum)
- “Having in a short time gained many people to the Lord, he died among the Midland Angles, in the country called Infeppingum”

sworn: Finan “Diuma, one of the aforesaid four priests, was made bishop of the Midland Angles, as also of the Mercians, being ordained by Bishop Finan”
with Peada (interaction) “The aforesaid priests, arriving in the province with the prince, preached the Word, and were heard willingly;”

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