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Diuma was the first Bishop of Mercia in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, during the Early Middle Ages.
Headda was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield.
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Leofwin was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield.
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- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
- Kirby, D. P. (1967). The Making of Early England (Reprint ed.). New York: Schocken Books.
