Tuda of Lindisfarne

Holy Hierarch Tuda of Lindisfarne was bishop of Lindisfarne in England and died in 664, within the first year of his service. He is a saint of the undivided Church.

He was born and trained in the south of Ireland and was a monk. Although consecrated bishop in Ireland, he firmly held to Roman customs: he was tonsured in the Roman manner and kept Easter by the Roman reckoning. When Colman left Lindisfarne after the synod of Whitby, Colman asked the king to appoint abbot Eata of Melrose as abbot in his place, and Tuda was made bishop of the Northumbrians. He ruled for less than a year. The Anglo-⁠Saxon Chronicle names him among those who died in the plague of 664 and among the consecrators of the minster of Medhamsted (Peterborough).

He is commemorated on 21 October, the liturgical date in the Orthodox calendar (the same day number on the old and new calendars).