Colmán of Lindisfarne

Colman of Lindisfarne (c. 605 in Ireland, † February 18 675) was 661-664 bishop and abbot of Lindisfarne.

Colman was like its predecessors, an Irish monk in Iona, before he came to the monastery of Lindisfarne. He did not live according to the Rule of St.. Benedict, but according to the St.. Columba of Iona. He was also a staunch advocate of the Celtic rite in the Church and kept in Easter dispute the Celtic traditions of his church, despite the intervention of Rome in.

664 appointed King Oswiu of Northumbria, the Synod of Whitby, which opted for the Catholic rite. Colman put on his offices and went with the followers of the iro -Scottish tradition the monastery of Iona in Scotland. Colman took some bones of St. Aidan of Lindisfarne with as relics.

668 he retired with some fellow Muslims on the island of Inishbofin off the Irish west coast, where he founded a monastery. When there was dispute between the monks, he told 671 the monastery by the Scots remained on Inishbofin and fishing in Mageo in County Mayo founded a new monastery.

Colman died on February 18, 675 or 676 in the Abbey Mayo.

His feast day is February 18, in Ireland, August 8.