The Bishop of Hexham was an

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title which took its name after the

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Hexham Hexham ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the south bank of the River Tyne, formed by the confluence of the North Tyne and the South Tyne at Warden nearby, and close to Hadrian's Wall. Hexham was the administra ...

in Northumberland, England. The title was first used by the

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in the 7th and 9th centuries, and then by the Roman

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since the 19th century.

Anglo-Saxon bishops

The first Diocese of Lindisfarne was merged into the

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in 664. York diocese was then divided in 678 by Archbishop

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of Canterbury, forming a bishopric for the country between the Rivers

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and Tees, with a seat at Hexham. This gradually and erratically merged back into the

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. Eleven bishops of Hexham followed St. Eata, of which six were saints. No successor was appointed in 821, the condition of the country being too unsettled. A period of disorder followed the Danish devastations, after which Hexham monastery was reconstituted in 1113 as a priory of

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, which flourished until its dissolution under Henry VIII. Meantime the bishopric had been merged in that of Lindisfarne, which latter see was removed to Chester-le-Street in 883, and thence to Durham in 995.

Modern Catholic bishops

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Episcopal succession in Anglo-Saxon England
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hexham Religion in Northumberland Bishops of Hexham