Diuma

Diuma
Bishop of Mercia
Successor	Ceollach
Orders
Consecration	after 655
Personal details
Born	Ireland
Died	late 650s Charlbury, Kingdom of Mercia

Diuma (or Dwyna or Duma) was the first Bishop of Mercia in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, during the Early Middle Ages.^[1]

Diuma was an Irishman, and was one of four priests from the Kingdom of Northumbria, who went to Mercia in 653 to introduce the Christian faith to the region. Their coming had been requested by the Mercian ealdorman, Peada, son of Penda, King of Mercia. Peada had become a Christian when he married Alhflaed, daughter of Oswiu, King of Northumbria. They arrived under the leadership of Cedd.^[2]

After Penda's death, Diuma was consecrated a bishop by Finan. He established his see in Repton,^[1] but the exact boundaries of the bishopric are unclear.^[3] The Venerable Bede claimed that he was bishop of both the Middle Angles and the Mercians.^[4]

Diuma was consecrated after 655 but his death date is unknown. It would appear to have been not long after this, as he was succeeded as bishop by Ceollach, whose own successor, Trumhere, was named bishop around 658.^[5] Bede refers to his episcopate as having been fruitful but short, after which his body was buried in Charlbury, in the territory of the Middle Angles, where the foundation of the parish church is attributed to him.^[6]

In 669 the seat of the diocese was moved by a successor, Chad, to Lichfield.^[1]

Citations

1 2 3 "Lichfield". Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
↑ "Cedd". Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
↑ Stenton Anglo-Saxon England p. 120
↑ Kirby Earliest English Kings p. 80
↑ Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 220
↑ Corbett History of Spelsbury p. 20

References

Corbett, E. (1962). A History of Spelsbury: Including Dean, Taston, Fulwell and Ditchley. Banbury, UK: Cheney and Sons. OCLC 21795248.
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.
Stenton, F. M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England (Third ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5.

External links

Diuma 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Catholic Church titles
New diocese	Bishop of Mercia c. 656–c. 658	Succeeded by Ceollach

Bishops of Lichfield (including precursor offices)

Mercia	Diuma Ceollach Trumhere Jaruman

Mercians & Lindisfaras	Chad

Lichfield	Winfrith Seaxwulf Headda Aldwine Witta Hemele Cuthfrith Berhthun Hygeberht (Archbishop of Lichfield) Ealdwulf Herewine Æthelwold Hunberght Cynefrith Tunberht Wulfsige Burgheard Eadberht Wulfred Wilferth Ælfwine Wulfgar Cynesige Wynsige Elphege Godwin Leofgar Brihtmær Wulfsige Leofwin Peter

Chester	Peter Robert de Limesey

Coventry	Robert de Limesey Robert Peche Roger de Clinton Walter Durdent Richard Peche Gerard la Pucelle Hugh Nonant Geoffrey de Muschamp William de Cornhill Alexander de Stavenby

Coventry & Lichfield	Alexander de Stavenby Hugh de Pateshull Roger Weseham Roger de Meyland Walter Langton Roger Northburgh Robert de Stretton Walter Skirlaw Richard le Scrope John Burghill John Catterick James Cary William Heyworth William Booth Nicholas Close Reginald Boulers John Hales William Smyth John Arundel Geoffrey Blythe Rowland Lee

Lichfield & Coventry	Rowland Lee Richard Sampson Ralph Baines Thomas Bentham William Overton George Abbot Richard Neile John Overall Thomas Morton Robert Wright Accepted Frewen John Hacket Thomas Wood William Lloyd John Hough Edward Chandler Richard Smalbroke The Hon Frederick Cornwallis John Egerton Brownlow North Richard Hurd The Hon James Cornwallis The Hon Henry Ryder Samuel Butler

Lichfield	Samuel Butler James Bowstead John Lonsdale George Selwyn William Maclagan The Hon Augustus Legge John Kempthorne Edward Woods Stretton Reeve Kenneth Skelton Keith Sutton Jonathan Gledhill

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