Ceolfrith

Saint Ceolfrith (Ceolfrid, Geoffrey) was abbot of the monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow and the teacher of the Venerable Bede. He was born in Northumbria in 642 and reposed in 716 on the way to Rome.

He became a monk at Gilling in Yorkshire, then went to Ripon and later to Wearmouth. He led the community of Wearmouth and Jarrow for twenty-⁠six years and is remembered above all for guiding Bede and for the Codex Amiatinus, the oldest surviving Vulgate in one complete volume, produced in his monastery. He died at Langres in France while on his way to Rome. He is commemorated on 25 September, as a saint of the undivided Church, by the New Calendar.