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Coifi

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

was the chief of the heathen priests of Edwin, king of Northumbria, in A.D. 627. He advised his master to accept Christianity at the preaching of Paulinus, and he himself desecrated the temple at Goodmanham, where he had so often officiated (Bede, H.E. 2:13).

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Coifi'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​c/coifi.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.