Who is Abbot Ceolfrith from The Age of Bede and what is their importance? The_Age_of_Bede English & Literature Abbot Ceolfrith | The Age of Bede

Ceolfrith lived from 642 to 716 and was an Anglo-Saxon saint. He cared for Bede from the time Bede was seven until he died and ruled the Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Abbey. Bede's writing on Ceolfrith and the Anonymous History confirms that he died traveling to Rome to deliver a copy of the Bible to Pope Gregory I having stopped in Burgundy.