In 684 he was made bishop of Lindisfarne. By late 686 he resigned and returned to his hermitage as he felt he was about to die. He was probably in his early 50s.

Life

Origins and background

Cuthbert was born (perhaps into a noble family) in Dunbar, then in Anglo-Saxon Northumbria, and now in East Lothian, Scotland, in the mid-630s, some ten years after the conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria

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