Excerpt from The Diocesan History of Killaloe, Kilfenora, Clonfert, and Kilmacduagh: A. D. 659 A. D. 1886
On the death of St. Columba, Oswald, King of Northumbria, as soon as he ascended the throne, being desirous that all his nation should receive the Christian faith, asked that a bishop of the Irish Church might be sent. Nor were they long in granting his request, but sent him: Bishop Aidan, a man, we are told, of singular piety, meekness, and moderation. On his arrival the king appointed him his Episcopal See in the isle of Lindisfarne.
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