Right-Believing
Eadberht
King of Northumbria
Successor of Saint Ceolwulf on the throne of Northumbria, who later became a monk, reposed in 768.
- Feast
- August 20old style September 2
- Reposed
- 7688th century
- Place
- Northumbria
Life
Saint Eadberht the Right-believing was king of Northumbria in England from 737 to 758 and the successor of Saint Ceolwulf on the throne. His brother was Egbert, Archbishop of York. After a prosperous reign of some twenty years he gave up the throne to his son Oswulf in 758 and withdrew to the monastery at York, where he spent ten more years in prayer and seclusion. He reposed on 19 or 20 August 768.
He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 20 August (new style, Western calendar).
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