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Beornheah was a
Bishop of Selsey
The Bishop of Chichester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the counties of East and West Sussex. The see is based in the City of Chichester where the bishop's seat ...
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Beornheah is said to have been consecrated by Archbishop
Plegmund
Plegmund (or Plegemund; died 2 August either 914 or 923) was a medieval English Archbishop of Canterbury. He may have been a hermit before he became archbishop in 890. As archbishop, he reorganised the Diocese of Winchester, creating four new ...
on the same day as six other bishops, about 909.
[Kelly ''Charters of Selsey'' p. xci] In 930 Beornheah received a grant from King Athelstan.
Anglo-Saxons.net Charters S403
accessed on 25 August 2007
Beornheah died between 930 and 931.[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 221]
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Bishops of Selsey
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