ended venerated death_date consecration feast_day birth_date death_place attributes title image diocese name caption predecessor birth_place buried patronage shrine appointed successor article_title
669 catholic church anglican communion eastern orthodox church 2 march 672 664 2 march '' c. '' 634 lichfield , staffordshire bishop , holding a triple-spired cathedral -lrb- lichfield -rrb- bishop of york saint chad.jpg york chad image holy cross monastery , west park , new york of chad in a stained glass window from paulinus northumbria lichfield cathedral mercia ; lichfield ; of astronomers * on site . part of saxon shrine was discovered in lichfield 2006 . cathedral , now destroyed . modern shrine 664 wilfrid chad of mercia

chad of mercia

chad -lrb- ; died 2 march 672 -rrb- 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 .
