Headda (died ) was an early medieval Bishop of Lichfield.
Career Headda was consecrated in 691 and died between 716 and 727.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 218 He held the see of Leicester along with Lichfield. In 706 Headda consecrated the new church constructed at Crowland by Guthlac.Stenton Anglo-Saxon England pp. 49–50.
Prior to Headda's consecration, he had "almost certainly" been abbot of the monastery at Breedon on the Hill in Leicestershire, before which he may also have been a monk at Medeshamstede.Kelly Charters of Peterborough Abbey pp. 71–75
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