Ascelin (or Anselm) was a medieval
Bishop of Rochester
The Bishop of Rochester is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury.
The town of Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was foun ...
.
Ascelin was
prior
Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In abbeys, a prior would be l ...
of
Dover Priory
The Priory of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Martin of the New Work, or Newark, commonly called Dover Priory, was a priory at Dover in southeast England. It was variously independent in rule, then occupied by canons regular of the Augustinian r ...
in
Kent before being selected as bishop.
[British History Online Bishops of Rochester]
accessed on 30 October 2007 He was consecrated in 1142. He died on 24 January 1148.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 267]
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British History Online Bishops of Rochesteraccessed on 30 October 2007
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Bishops of Rochester
12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
1148 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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