BENEDICT BISCOP (628?-69o), also known as BlscoP BADUCING, English churchman of noble family, was for a time a thegn of Oswiu, King of Northumbria. He then went abroad and after a second journey to Rome (he made five altogether) lived as a monk at Lerins (665-667). It was under his conduct that Theodore of Tarsus came from Rome to Canterbury in 66g, and in the same year Benedict was appointed abbot of St. Peter's, Canterbury. Five years later he built the monastery of St. Peter at Wearmouth, on land granted him by Egfrith of Northumbria, and endowed it with the large collection of books and art treasures which he had brought from Rome. A papal letter in 678 exempted the monastery from external control, and in 682 Benedict erected a sister foundation (St. Paul) at Jarrow. He died on Jan. 12, 69o. Bede was one of his pupils.