Consolidation and conflict: the English Church organizes, expands, and matures.
Chapter 1 On the death of Archbishop Deusdedit, Wighard is sent to Rome to be consecrated in his stead: on the latter’s death there, Theodore is consecrated Archbishop and sent to Britain with Abbot Hadrian [a.d. 664]
Chapter 2 Theodore makes a general visitation: the English churches begin to receive instruction in Catholic truth, and sacred study is fostered. Putta succeeds Damian as Bishop of Rochester [a.d. 669]
Chapter 3 Chad is appointed Bishop of the Mercians [c. a.d. 667]; his life, death [a.d. 672], and burial
Chapter 4 Bishop Colman leaves Britain, and founds two monasteries in the land of the Irish, one for the Irish, and another for the English whom he had taken with him [a.d. 667]
Chapter 5 The death of King Oswy and King Egbert. Archbishop Theodore presides over a Synod held at Hertford [a.d. 673]
Chapter 6 Wynfrid is deposed, and Sexwulf appointed to his see: Earconwald is made Bishop of the East Saxons [a.d. 675]
Chapter 7 A heavenly light indicates where the bodies of the nuns of Barking should be buried
Chapter 8 A little boy, dying in the convent, announces the approaching death of one of the sisters. A nun, about to depart this life, sees a glimpse of future glory
Chapter 9 Signs from heaven appear when the Mother of the Community departs this life
Chapter 10 A blind woman regains her sight while praying in the convent burial-ground
Chapter 11 Sebbi, King of the East Saxons, ends his days as a monk
Chapter 12 Haeddi succeeds Leutherius as Bishop of the West Saxons: Cuichelm succeeds Putta in the See of Rochester, and is himself succeeded by Gebmund. The succession of the Northumbrian bishops
Chapter 13 Wilfrid converts the Province of the South Saxons to Christ [see also v. 19]
Chapter 14 A fatal epidemic is halted by the intercession of King Oswald
Chapter 15 King Cadwalla of the Gewissae kills King Ethelwalh and devastates his province with plundering and slaughter
Chapter 16 The Isle of Wight receives Christian settlers. Two young princes of the island are killed immediately after Baptism [a.d. 686]
Chapter 17 Theodore presides over a Synod held in the Plain of Haethfeld (Hatfield) [a.d. 680]
Chapter 18 John, Arch-cantor of the apostolic see, comes to teach in Britain [a.d. 680]
Chapter 19 Queen Etheldreda preserves her virginity, and her body remains incorrupt in the grave [a.d. 660]