monastery
Lindisfarne (Holy Island)
Lindisfarne, Northumberland, United Kingdom · Britain & Ireland
55.680, -1.802
Attested. Attested by Bede and by the surviving Lindisfarne Gospels.
King Oswald brought the Irish monk Aidan from Iona to found Lindisfarne in 635, and it became the mother house of Northumbrian Christianity. Cuthbert served here, and the Lindisfarne Gospels were made here around 715. A Viking raid in 793 is often taken as the start of the Viking Age.
Source stance: insider. Bede and hagiography.
People and groups named here
- Aidan
- Oswald of Northumbria
- Cuthbert
- Eadfrith (Lindisfarne Gospels)
Sources
- Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Book III (Columba and Iona, Aidan and Lindisfarne)
tr. L. C. Jane (1903), public domain; Fordham Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Lindisfarne, Ancient Diocese and Monastery of
Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1912), public domain; New Advent. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- St. Aidan of Lindisfarne
Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1912), public domain; New Advent. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.