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FELIX, a missionary bishop from Burgundy, sent into East Anglia by Honorius of Canterbury (63o-31). Under King Sige bert his mission was successful, and he became first bishop of East Anglia, with a see at Dunwich, where he died and was buried, 647-8.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.-See Bede, Hist. Eccl., edit. C. Plummer, ii. 15, iii. 18, Bibliography.-See Bede, Hist. Eccl., edit. C. Plummer, ii. 15, iii. 18, 20, 25 (1896) ; Saxon Chronicle, edit. J. Earle and C. Plummer, s.a. 636 (1865). See also under March 8th in J. Bollandus and G. Henschenius, Acta Sanctorum Bollandiana (Paris, 1863 etc.) .