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archbishop Deusdcdit. lie died about June or July 664".
The see was vacant nearly five years after the death of Damian.
669 Pi tt\ succeeded Damian in the see of Rochester, and was consecrated by archbishop Theodore 27th May 669"'. Ho was driven from his sec when Ethelred, king of Mercia, invaded Kent; and was appointed in 676 bishop of the newly erected Bee of Hereford 11 .
676 Cuichelm orQuicHELM,the seventh bishop ofBochester, was ordained by archbishop Theodore in the room of Putta 12 ; but he soon quitted it on account of its poverty ,3 , and
676 Gebmdnd was substituted in the placo of Cuichelm in 676". He died in 693 ' ', and
693 Tobias 16 was consecrated in his stead by archbishop Berhtuald in 693 '". lb- died in 726 18 .
726 Alduulf 19 succeeded Tobias, and was also consecrated by archbishop Berhtuald- . He died in 739, accord- ing to Simeon of Durham ; and in 741, according to Florence of Worcester.
741 Dlxx or Duixa succeeded Alduulf in 74 r 21 . The time of his death is unknown, but he was present at a
��9 See "Wharton's note on his his successor, death in Amelia Sacra. 16 Gebmundo Hrofensis ec-
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��10 Bed. Hist. Eccl. lib. iv. c. 2. clesiae praesule defuncto Tobiam et Flor. Wigorn. ad an. 669. pro illo consecravit, virum La-
11 Bed. Hist. Eccl. lib.iv. c.i 2. tina Graeca et Saxonica lingua,
12 Ibid. atque eruditione multipliciter
13 Pra? inopia rerum, ab epi- instructum. Bed. Hist. Eccl. scopatu decedente. Bed. Hist. lib. v. c. 8.
Eccl. lib. iv. c. 12. 17 Sax. Chron. et Flor. Wig.
M Flor. Wigorn. ad ann. 18 Bed. Hist. Eccl. lib. v. c. 23.
1 5 Beda has not mentioned 19 Ealdwulf, MS. Cott. Vesp.
when bishop Gebmund died, but B. vi.; Ealduulf, C.C.C. Cant,
the Saxon Chronicle, and Flo- clxxxiii.
rence of Worcester, and others 20 Bed. Hist. Eccl. lib. v. c. 23.
give the year 693 for that event et Flor. Wigorn. and the consecration of Tobias 21 Flor. Wigorn.
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