Chad of Mercia

Saint

Chad
Saint; Chad
Bishop of York
	Stained glass depiction from Holy Cross Monastery, West Park, New York
Appointed	664
Term ended	669
Predecessor	Paulinus
Successor	Wilfrid
Orders
Consecration	664
Personal details
Born	c. 634; Northumbria
Died	2 March 672; Lichfield, Staffordshire
Buried	Lichfield Cathedral
Sainthood
Feast day	2 March
Venerated in	Catholic Church; Anglican Communion; Eastern Orthodox Church
Attributes	Bishop, holding a triple-spired cathedral (Lichfield)
Patronage	Mercia; Lichfield
Shrines	Lichfield Cathedral, now destroyed. Modern shrine on site. Part of Saxon shrine was discovered in 2006.; St. Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, where bones attributed to Chad were installed in 1841.;

Chad (died 2 March 672) was a prominent 7th-century Anglo-Saxon Catholic monk 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 the Venerable Bede and is credited, together with Cedd, with introducing Christianity to the Mercian kingdom.

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