Bede's Ecclesiastical History

Romanus

Family: Church · Role: bishop · First appears: Book II · Chap. VIII

Life events

  • c. 624 · Justus consecrated Romanus bishop of Rochester in his own stead.(Book II · Chap. VIII · 📍 Rochester)
    • With: Justus
    • “He consecrated Romanus bishop of that see in his own stead”
  • 633 · Romanus drowned while carrying Archbishop Justus's mission to Pope Honorius.(Book II · Chap. XX · 📍 Italian Sea)
    • With: Justus Pope Honorius
    • “Romanus, the bishop thereof, being sent on a mission to Pope Honorius by Archbishop Justus, was drowned in the Italian Sea”

Book II · Chap. VIII

  • sworn: Justus “He consecrated Romanus bishop of that see in his own stead”

Book II · Chap. XX

  • with Justus (interaction) “Romanus, the bishop thereof, being sent on a mission to Pope Honorius by Archbishop Justus”
  • with Pope Honorius (interaction) “Romanus, the bishop thereof, being sent on a mission to Pope Honorius by Archbishop Justus”

Book III · Chap. XXV · part 1

  • with Eanfled (Romanus was accompanying Eanfled.) “Queen Eanfled and her followers also observed it as she had seen it practised in Kent, having with her a Kentish priest who followed the Catholic observance, whose name was Romanus.”
  • with James (James and Romanus belonged to the same side in the controversy.) “James and Romanus were on their side;”

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