Egfrith offering the Bishopric of Hexham to Cuthbert, 678, illustration from 'Hutchinson's Story of the British Nation', c.1920 by William Bell Scott
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- Egfrith offering the Bishopric of Hexham to Cuthbert, 678, illustration from 'Hutchinson's Story of the British Nation', c.1920
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When King Egfrith (d.685) of Northumbria offered divided his kingdom into four Bishoprics - York, Lindisfarne, Hexham and Lindsey - and deprived Bishop Wilfred of his power, the see of Hexham was offered to Cuthbert, the hermit of Farne Island, who declined and was later consecrated Bishop of Lindisfarne;
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