CUTHBERT, SAINT (d. 687), bishop of Lindisfarne, was probably a Northumbrian by birth. He entered the monastery of Melrose in 65r, where, after having spent a short time in the monastery of Ripon, he succeeded Boisel as prior in 661. Three years later he became prior at Lindisfarne, retiring in 676 to the island of Farne. In 684 at the council of Twyford in Northum berland, Egfrith, king of Northumbria, induced him to become bishop of Hexham, a see which he afterwards exchanged with Eata, abbot of Melrose, for that of Lindisfarne. In 687 Cuthbert again retired to Farne, where he died on March 2o, 687. His remains were removed to Durham.
Another Cuthbert was bishop of Hereford (736-4o) and arch bishop of Canterbury from 74o until his death in Oct., 758.