Wulfwig (Wulfinus) was a medieval
Bishop of Dorchester
The modern Bishop Suffragan of Dorchester in the Diocese of Oxford, usually contracted to Bishop of Dorchester, is an episcopal title used by an area bishop of the Church of England Diocese of Oxford, in the Province of Canterbury, England. The ...
, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of
Lindsey Lindsey may refer to :
Places Canada
* Lindsey Lake, Nova Scotia
England
* Parts of Lindsey, one of the historic Parts of Lincolnshire and an administrative county from 1889 to 1974
** East Lindsey, an administrative district in Lincolnshire, ...
and
Dorchester.
Life
Wulfwig appears in a charter of 1045 as royal chancellor, but its reliability of doubtful. In 1053 he succeeded Ulf in the bishopric of Dorchester. His predecessor was living and had been irregularly deprived, and Freeman suggests that the record of this fact in the chronicle may indicate some feeling against Wulfwig's appointment, but there seems to have been no opposition. Wulfwig apparently shared the scruple about the canonical position of Archbishop Stigand, for he went abroad to be consecrated. His appointment is thought to mark a momentary decline in Norman influence, and he was the last of the old line of Dorchester bishops, for his death occurred when the English ecclesiastical preferments were passing into Norman hands. His will is extant and is witnessed by a large number of persons, beginning with the king.
[ Alice Margaret Cooke, "]Wulfwig
Wulfwig (Wulfinus) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of Lindsey and Dorchester.
Life
Wulfwig appears in a charter of 1045 as royal chancellor, but its reliability of doubtful. In 1053 he succeede ...
", ''Dictionary of National Biography'', 1885-1900, Volume 63
Wulfwig was consecrated in 1053
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 215] on the continent.
and died in 1067.
[ He was buried in Dorchester.][
]
Citations
References
British History Online Bishops of Lincoln
accessed on 28 October 2007
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External links
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Bishops of Dorchester (Mercia)
Wulfinus
Wulfwig (Wulfinus) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of Lindsey and Dorchester.
Life
Wulfwig appears in a charter of 1045 as royal chancellor, but its reliability of doubtful. In 1053 he succeede ...
Year of birth unknown
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