Æthelhard
[6] Æthelhard owed his appointment to King Offa of Mercia,[4] and the enthronement was presided over by the then-senior bishop of the land: Hygberht, the Archbishop of Lichfield.Alcuin's plan would have allowed Hygberht to retain archiepiscopal status during his lifetime, but it would be a purely ceremonial rank.[11] Coenwulf's embassy bore a letter to the pope that asked for papal advice on how to resolve the problems surrounding Lichfield and Canterbury.The letter reminded the papacy of Pope Gregory the Great's old scheme to have two metropolitans in Britain, one in the north and one in the south, with the southern one being based in London.He also managed to secure professions of obedience from a number of southern bishops, including Eadwulf of Lindsey and Tidferth of Dummoc.[9] Æthelhard returned to England in 803, and convened the Council of Clovesho, which decreed that no archiepiscopal see besides Canterbury should ever been established in the southern part of Britain.[4] He was later revered as a saint, with a feast day of 12 May, but his cult was suppressed by the Roman Catholic Archbishop Lanfranc in the late 11th century and never was revived.