The Venerable Bede

Saint Bede the Venerable
Cropped portrait from The Venerable [St.] Bede Translates [St.] John by J. Doyle Penrose (c.  1902)
Doctor of the Church, Monk, Historian
Born	c. 673 not recorded, possibly Monkton, Tyne and Wear, England
Died	26 May 735 (aged 61 or 62) Jarrow, Kingdom of Northumbria (contemporarily Tyne and Wear, England)
Venerated in	Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism
Canonized	Declared a Doctor of the Church in 1899 by Pope Leo XIII, Rome
Major shrine	Durham Cathedral, Durham, County Durham, England
Feast	25 May (Western Churches) 27 May (Orthodox Church and the General Roman Calendar from 1899–1969)
Patronage	English writers and historians; Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, England, San Beda College

Bede (/ˈbiːd/ BEED; Old English: Bǣda or Bēda; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Bēda Venerābilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St. Peter and its companion monastery of St. Paul in the Kingdom of Northumbria of the Angles (contemporarily Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey in Tyne and Wear, England). He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History of the English People gained him the title "The Father of English History".

In 1899, Pope Leo XIII declared him a Doctor of the Church; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation; Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy. Bede was moreover a skilled linguist and translator, and his work made the Latin and Greek writings of the early Church Fathers much more accessible to his fellow Anglo-Saxons, which contributed significantly to English Christianity. Bede's monastery had access to an impressive library which included works by Eusebius, Orosius, and many others.