Eddi

Also known as: Stephen · Family: Northumbrian Church · Role: teacher of singing · First appears: Book IV · Chap. II

Life events

• c. 668 · Wilfrid invited Eddi from Kent to teach singing in the Northumbrian churches.(Book IV · Chap. II · 📍 Kent)
  • With: Wilfrid
  • “the first teacher of singing in the churches of the Northumbrians was Eddi, surnamed Stephen, invited from Kent by the most reverend Wilfrid”

Book IV · Chap. II

• with Wilfrid (Wilfrid invited Eddi from Kent.) “And, excepting James, of whom we have spoken above, the first teacher of singing in the churches of the Northumbrians was Eddi, surnamed Stephen, invited from Kent by the most reverend Wilfrid, who was the first of the bishops of the English nation that learned to deliver to the churches of the English the Catholic manner of life.”

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