DURHAM. X HIS diocese now contains the whole county of Durham and all Northumberland, eight churches or chapels, formerly known as Hexham peculiar and belonging to the archdiocese of York, having been annexed to it by order in council dated 22nd Dec. 1836. It is divided into three archdeaconries, Durham, Northumberland, and Lindisfarne^ The cathedral consists of a dean, twelve prebenda- ries or canons ^ &c. BISHOPS OF LINDISFARNE or HOLY ISLAND. Oswald, king of Northumbria, whom Beda men- tions in a high style of panegyric-^, on succeeding to the throne, sent into Scotland 4, where he had been 1 The archdeaconry of North- umberland, by order in council 27th Aug. 1842, was divided into two, one to be called the arch- deaconry of Northumberland, and the other the archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, and by the same order in council it was directed that the canonry that next should become vacant in this cathedral should be annexed and united to the archdeaconry of Northum- berland. ^ Hy order in council 41)1 .June 1^41, the third and eleventh ca- nonries were annexed to tlu; fjro- fcHSorHhipH of Divinity and (ireek in the university of Durham ; and the first canonry, which had N become vacant by the death of Thomas Gisborne 25th March 1846, was by order in council 1st Aug. 1846 vested in the uni- versity of Durham for the pur- poses therein mentioned. •^ Lib. iii. c. 2, 3, et 6. 4 Misit ad majores natu Scot- torum, inter quos exulans ipse baptismatis sacramenta, cum his, (jui secum erant, militibus, con- secutus erat ; petens, ut sibi mit- teretur antistes, cujus doctrina ac ministerio gens, (juam regcbat, Anglorum, Dominican fidei ot dona disceret, et suscipcri't sa- cramenta. lU-d. Hist. Keel. lib. iii. c. ^. n z
