Ceolfrid

Family: Britons · Role: abbot and fellow-labourer of Benedict · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XVIII

Life events

c. 705 · Ceolfrid sent Naiton master-builders and a letter explaining Catholic Easter and clerical tonsure.(Book V · Chap. XXI · part 1 · 📍 Ingyruum)
- With: Naiton
- “The most reverend Abbot Ceolfrid favourably receiving his godly desires and requests, sent the builders he desired, and likewise the following letter:”

with Benedict (Ceolfrid was Benedict’s companion and fellow-labourer.) “For the said Benedict, having built a monastery in Britain, in honour of the most blessed chief of the Apostles, at the mouth of the river Wear, went to Rome with Ceolfrid, his companion and fellow-labourer in that work, who was after him abbot of the same monastery”

with Naiton (Naiton sent messengers to Ceolfrid and requested a letter.) “Accordingly, he sent messengers to the venerable Ceolfrid, abbot of the monastery of the blessed Apostles, Peter and Paul, which stands at the mouth of the river Wear, and near the river Tyne, at the place called Ingyruum, which he gloriously governed after Benedict, of whom we have before spoken; desiring, that he would send him a letter of exhortation”
with Naiton (Ceolfrid sent builders and a letter to Naiton.) “The most reverend Abbot Ceolfrid favourably receiving his godly desires and requests, sent the builders he desired, and likewise the following letter:”

ward: Bede “Having been born in the territory of that same monastery, I was given, by the care of kinsmen, at seven years of age, to be educated by the most reverend Abbot Benedict, and afterwards by Ceolfrid.”
with Bede (Ceolfrid directed Bede's ordination.) “In the nineteenth year of my age, I received deacon’s orders; in the thirtieth, those of the priesthood, both of them by the ministry of the most reverend Bishop John, and at the bidding of the Abbot Ceolfrid.”
pupil: Bede “and afterwards by Ceolfrid, and spending all the remaining time of my life a dweller in that monastery”
liege: Bede “In the nineteenth year of my age, I received deacon’s orders; in the thirtieth, those of the priesthood, both of them by the ministry of the most reverend Bishop John, and at the bidding of the Abbot Ceolfrid.”
with Bede (interaction) “The History of the Abbots of this monastery, in which I rejoice to serve the Divine Goodness, to wit, Benedict, Ceolfrid, and Huaetbert, in two books.”

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