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Elfodd
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'''Elfodd''' (died
809), also known as '''Elfoddw''' (
Latin '''Elbodugus''' or '''Elvodugus''') was a Welsh bishop who induced the Welsh church to adopt the Roman method of determining the date of
Easter.
Elfodd appears to have been associated with the monastery at
Holyhead on
Anglesey as a young man, and must have still been comparatively young when in
768 he persuaded the Welsh church to come into line with Rome as regards the method of calculating the date of Easter. The annals
Brut y Tywysogion state:
:''Eight years after that [768] Easter was moved for the Britons, and Elbodius the servant of God moved it.'''
Elfodd's death is recorded under the year
809. Brut y Tywysogion describes him as ''archbishop [or chief bishop] of Gwynedd''.
Nennius, who says in the
Historia Brittonum that he was the pupil of Elfodd, describes him as a ''most holy bishop'' and reveals that Elfodd was a student of the works of
Bede. One later source states that he was consecrated as
Bishop of Bangor in
755, but may not be reliable.
References
*
John Edward Lloyd ''A history of Wales from the earliest times to the Edwardian conquest'' (Longmans, Green & Co.)
* Thomas Jones, ed. ''Brut y Tywysogion: Peniarth MS. 20 version'' (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1952)
Category:History of Wales
Category:Welsh people
Category:809 deaths
