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Bishop of the East Angles The Bishop of Dunwich is an episcopal title which was first used by an Anglo-Saxon bishop between the seventh and ninth centuries and is currently used by the suffragan bishop of the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The title takes its na ...

. He was consecrated between 647 and 648 and died between 652 and 653. He was bishop for five years.

Bede Bede (; ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, Bede of Jarrow, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (), was an English monk, author and scholar. He was one of the most known writers during the Early Middle Ages, and his most f ...

described Thomas as having been "from the province of the

Gyrwas Gyrwas was the name of an Anglo-Saxon tribe of the Fens, in modern-day Cambridgeshire, divided into northern and southern groups and recorded in the Tribal Hidage; related to the name of Jarrow. They will be descended from the Angles, the German ...

" and

deacon A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian denominations, such as the Cathol ...

Felix of Burgundy Felix of Burgundy (died 8 March 647 or 648), also known as Felix of Dunwich, was the first bishop of the kingdom of the East Angles. He is widely credited as the man who introduced Christianity to the kingdom. Almost all that is known about hi ...

.Bede, ''Ecclesiastical History'', iii, 20.

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