CHAD (CEADDA), SAINT (d. 672), brother of Cedd, whom he succeeded as abbot at Lastingham, was consecrated bishop of the Northumbrians by Wine, the West Saxon bishop, at the re quest of Oswy in 664. On the return of Wilfrid from France, where he had been sent to be consecrated to the same see, a dis pute arose, which was settled by Theodore in favour of Wilfrid. Chad thereupon retired to Lastingham, whence with the permis sion of Oswy he was summoned by Wulfhere of Mercia to succeed his bishop Jaruman (d. 667) . Chad built a monastery at Barrow in Lincolnshire and fixed his see at Lichfield.
See Bede's Hist. Eccl.; Eddius, Vita Wilfridi, xiv., xv., ed. J. Raine, Rolls series (1879).