   chad (; died 2 march 672) was a prominent 7th century anglo-saxon churchman, who became abbot of several monasteries, bishop of the northumbrians and subsequently bishop of the mercians and lindsey people. he was later canonised as a saint. he was the brother of cedd, also a saint. he features strongly in the work of bede the venerable and is credited, together with cedd, with introducing christianity to the mercian kingdom. ==sources==  most of our knowledge of chad comes from the writings of bede. bede tells us that he obtained his information about chad and his brother, cedd, from the monks of lastingham, where both were abbots. bede gives this attribution great prominence, placing it in the introduction to his work. this may indicate that the brothers had become controversial figures: certainly bede must have thought that his material about them would be of more than usual interest to the reader. bede also refers to information he received from trumbert, "who tutored me in the scriptures and who had been educated in the monastery by that master", i.e. chad. in other words, bede considered himself t
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