Eoppa, the priest – first to bring Christianity to the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight?
AD 661 – In this year… Wulfhere, son of Penda, ravaged in the Isle of Wight, and gave the people of Wight to Aethelwald, king of Sussex, because Wulfhere had stood sponsor for him at baptism. Eoppa, the priest, at the command of Wilfred and king Wulfhere, was the first to bring Christianity to the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight”. (‘Everyman’ translation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle)