Bat, after an interval of three years, WilfUd returned, and claimed the See
to wbidi he had been consecrated ; and Theodore^ Archbishop of Canterbury,
having espooasd his cause, Ceadda found it ocmvenlent to oflbr no resistance,
but retired to hta Monastery of Lastingbam, and, after a short time, was
prevailed upon to resume his Episcopid functions in the neiHly established Dio*
case of Lichfield, where his fiime became great, and his miracles innumerable.
Wilfrid, in the mean time, took op his abode at York, and continued for
several years to exereiae spiritual jurisdiction throughout both the provinces
of Northumberland* But although he built and endowed churches without
mimber (Hexham, at that time the wonder of the north, among the rest), yet
those who were beat aequalnted with his character, gave hun credit for no higher
molivus than those of s|dendour and ostentation. Egfirid, his contemporary
King of Nortbumberiand, was equally ambittous, and, V any ci^t can be ghuii
to Wilfrid's Chaplain, somewhat disposed to rapacity, or rather sacrilege. Un-
der these circumstances, a quarrel soon took place, which ended in the interle*
rence of Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury, and WSfrid's resignation of his



£ATA, FIFTH BISHOP OF LINDISFARN£» 678~6S5.
After the resignation of Wilfrid, by no means on his part a voluntary ooe*
the See of Nordiumberlond was again divided^ and the Tees became,' as it had
been before the boundaxy between the two dioceses. Bosa was appointed Bishop
of Delta, the southern provhice, and the spiritual jurisdiction of Bemicia was
consigned to Eata, Abbot of Lindisfame.
Eiila had been orighiaHy a aeholar of Atdan, the 6rat Btriiop of the iskuid.
