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Ithamar (d. ca. 656) was of Kentish stock. He became Anglo-Saxon England's first native bishop when he received the see of Rochester in 644, at which time he assumed the Old Testament name by which he is known. According to St. Bede the Venerable, he was the equal of his missionary predecessors in learning and in manner of life. Ithamar was consecrated by St. Honorius of Canterbury; in 655 he consecrated the first native archbishop of Canterbury, the South Saxon Deusdedit. The post-Conquest bishop Gundulf, who in 1080 had begun work on today's Rochester cathedral, enshrined Ithamar in 1100. Today is Ithamar's day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology.
Two views from 2013 of the Ithamar Chapel in Gundulf's crypt in Rochester's Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8811938@N02/8482326480
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pagnobito/8557201152
Best,
John Dillon
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