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Sigar (or Sigegar; died
c. 996) was an
Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Wells
The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England.
The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of ...
.
Sigar was a monk at
Winchester[Knowles ''Monastic Order in England'' p. 65 note 3] before becoming
abbot
Abbot is an ecclesiastical title given to the male head of a monastery in various Western religious traditions, including Christianity. The office may also be given as an honorary title to a clergyman who is not the head of a monastery. The ...
of
Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury Abbey was a monastery in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. Its ruins, a grade I listed building and scheduled ancient monument, are open as a visitor attraction.
The abbey was founded in the 8th century and enlarged in the 10th. It w ...
about 970.
[Knowles, et al. ''Heads of Religious Houses'' pp. 50–51] He was consecrated in 975 and died 28 June in either 996 or 997.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 222]
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Bishops of Wells
990s deaths
Year of birth unknown
10th-century English bishops
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