Trumwine of Abercorn

Saint Trumwine of Abercorn was bishop of the Southern Picts, with his see at the monastery of Abercorn on the Firth of Forth in Scotland. He reposed around 704 at Whitby in England.

He was a contemporary and friend of Saint Cuthbert. In 681 Saint Theodore of Tarsus, archbishop of Canterbury, and King Ecgfrith of Northumbria appointed him bishop of the Picts who were then subject to English rule, that is, those north of the River Forth. This was part of a wider division of the Northumbrian church. In 685 King Ecgfrith was defeated and killed by the Picts at Nechtansmere, and Trumwine and his monks fled. The Anglo-⁠Saxons were driven out of southern Pictland, the see at Abercorn was abandoned and the diocese ceased to exist.

He retired to the monastery at Whitby, then ruled by Aelflaed, Ecgfrith's sister and the successor of Saint Hilda, and lived there an exemplary monastic life; Bede mentions him as a source. He was buried in the church of Saint Peter at Whitby. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 10 February (new style).