Bisi

Family: East Angles · Role: bishop · First appears: Book IV · Chap. V

Life events

• 670 · Theodore assembled the bishops and teachers at Herutford to deliberate on the Church’s affairs.(Book IV · Chap. V · 📍 Herutford)
  • With: Theodore Wilfrid Putta 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 Wilfrid Putta 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.”
• 673 · Theodore ordained Bisi and made him bishop in Boniface’s place.(Book IV · Chap. V)
  • With: Theodore
  • “for when Boniface died, after having been bishop seventeen years, he was ordained by Theodore and made bishop in his place.”
• 673 · Because Bisi was incapacitated, Aecci and Badwin were elected and consecrated as bishops in his place.(Book IV · Chap. V)
  • With: Aecci Badwin
  • “Whilst he was still alive, but hindered by grievous infirmity from administering his episcopal functions, two bishops, Aecci and Badwin, were elected and consecrated in his place”

Book IV · Chap. V

• sworn: Theodore “for when Boniface died, after having been bishop seventeen years, he was ordained by Theodore and made bishop in his place.”
• with Theodore (Theodore addressed and asked Bisi 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?”

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