The exhibition is being also being organised by Durham Cathedral, the county council and the British Library.
The exhibition has been arranged by Durham University with Durham Cathedral, Durham County Council and the British Library.
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Durham Cathedral was due to hold the service on Saturday during which torchbearers were to receive certificates from the county council.
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They were carried 1, 000 miles around the region from Holy Island, with the body of St Cuthbert, for 200 years before reaching Durham Cathedral in AD995, where they remained until the Reformation.
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The Gospels were carried 1, 000 miles around the region from Holy Island, with the body of St Cuthbert, for 200 years before reaching Durham Cathedral in AD995, where they remained until the Reformation.
They are likely to tweet from carol, crib and midnight services, before carrying on into Christmas morning when the highlights of the sermons at Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster and Durham Cathedral will be tweeted.
The monks landed up in Durham in about 990, where they built a cathedral and shrine to St Cuthbert.
He was a vicar in Warwickshire, a canon of Coventry Cathedral, and the Dean of Liverpool, before being appointed as Bishop of Durham in November 2011.
Bishop Welby is currently responsible for the diocese of Durham, but will take on the Church of England's most senior post at a ceremony at Canterbury Cathedral - the seat of the archbishop - on 21 March 2013.
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Behind the cathedral stands the castle, an ancient Norman fortress which was the residence of the prince-bishops of Durham.
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