Egbert of Lindisfarne (or Ecgberht) was
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
of
Lindisfarne
Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, is a tidal island off the northeast coast of England, which constitutes the civil parishes in England, civil parish of Holy Island in Northumberland. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th centu ...
from his consecration on 11 June 803 until his death in 821.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 219] He is often confused with
Saint Egbert who served as a
monk
A monk (; from , ''monachos'', "single, solitary" via Latin ) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery. A monk usually lives his life in prayer and contemplation. The concept is ancient and can be seen in many reli ...
at Lindisfarne, though the latter never became a bishop there.
To Egbert of Lindisfarne was dedicated the Latin poem ''
De abbatibus
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''De abbatibus'' (fully ''Carmen de abbatibus'', meaning "Song of the Abbots") is a Latin poem in eight hundred and nineteen hexameters by the ninth-century English monk Æthelwulf (''Ædiluulf''), a name meaning "noble wolf", whic ...
'' by a monk in one of the dependent houses of Lindisfarne.
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8th-century births
821 deaths
Bishops of Lindisfarne
9th-century English bishops
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