Eata (or Ecka)
Eata (or Ecka)
(1) First bishop of Hexham. A.D. 678, and the fifth of Lindisfarne, 681- 685, as originally from Northumbria, and abbot of Old Mielrose; he died October 26, 686.
(2) An anchorite of Crayke, in Yorkshire, who died in 767.