Acca of Hexham
8th-century Bishop of Hexham
Feast: 20 October (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Acca, a Northumbrian, began in the household of Bosa, later Bishop of York, then became the devoted disciple and companion of St Wilfrid, going with him to Rome in 692. Wilfrid made him abbot of St Andrew's at Hexham, and on Wilfrid's death in 709 he became bishop.
He completed Wilfrid's churches, brought the Roman chant to the North, and encouraged learning; Bede dedicated several of his most important works to him. Driven from his diocese in 732 for unknown reasons, he died about 742.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
A bishop and patron of learning, friend of Wilfrid and of Bede.
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), via New Advent - St. Acca
- Wikidata Q338268 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Acca of Hexham (CC BY-SA)
Checked against the sources listed on 21 September 2026. Corrections welcome.