__NOTOC__ Ealdwulf (died 815) was a medieval

Bishop of Lichfield The Bishop of Lichfield is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers 4,516 km2 (1,744 sq. mi.) of the counties of Powys, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire and West Mi ...

. Ealdwulf was consecrated between 799 and 801 and died between 814 and 816.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 218 The historian D. P. Kirby speculates that the last act of his predecessor,

Hygeberht Hygeberht (died after 803) was the Bishop of Lichfield from 779 and Archbishop of Lichfield after the elevation of Lichfield to an archdiocese some time after 787, during the reign of the powerful Mercian king Offa. Little is known of Hygeberht ...

, was to consecrate Ealdwulf, before Hygeberht resigned his archbishopric of Lichfield.Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 144

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