Note 65 — Chapter II
H. White translation
Aydanus accepto gradu episcopatus, quo tempore eodem monasterio Segenius abbas et presbyter præfuit. (Beda, lib. iii, cap. v.) Aidan having received the dignity of a bishop at the time when Segenius, abbot and presbyter, presided over that monastery. When Bede tells us that a plain priest was president, he excludes the idea that there were bishops in the assembly. See 1 Timothy, iv, 14.