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This page is for the Saxon bishopric - for the modern Catholic diocese of the similar name, see Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.

Bishop of Hexham, Saxon bishopric.

The first diocese of Lindisfarne was merged into the Diocese of York in 664. York diocese was then divided in 678 by Theodore of Tarsus, forming a bishopric for the country between the Rivers Aln and Tees, with a seat at Hexham and/or Lindisfarne. This gradually and erratically merged back into the bishopric of Lindisfarne. Eleven bishops of Hexham followed St. Eata, of which six were saints.

No successor was appointed in 821, the condition of the country being too unsettled. A period of disorder followed the Danish devastations, after which Hexham monastery was reconstituted in 1113 as a priory of Austin Canons, which flourished until its dissolution under Henry VIII. Meantime the bishopric had been merged in that of Lindisfarne, which latter see was removed to Chester-le-Street in 883, and thence to Durham in 995.

• Eata, 'bishop of Bernicia', with his seat at Hexham and/or Lindisfarne, died 685, suceeded by John of Beverley (Bede, Ecclesiastical History IV.12)
• Trumbert, 682, as 'bishop of Hexham', at the same time as Trumwine's installation, with Eata continuing as bishop at Lindisfarne
• Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, 685, after Tumbert's deposition, moving his seat to Lindisfarne to become bishop of Lindisfarne (Bede, IV.28)
• St. John of Beverley (685-705) (Bede, V.2). From then on, the seat was at Hexham, and the bishopric of Lindisfarne continued independently, with Eadberht suceeding Cuthbert
• St. Wilfrid, who, resigning the See of York, died as Bishop of Hexham in 709
• St. Acca, Wilfrid's successor, from 709 (Bede, V.20)
• Tidfert, last bishop in this line, who died about 821