Wulfsige III | |
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See | Bishop of Sherborne |
Appointed | circa (c.) 993 |
Reign ended | 8 January 1002 |
Predecessor | Æthelsige I |
Successor | Æthelric |
Personal details | |
Died | 8 January 1002 |
Denomination | Catholic |
Wulfsige (or Wulfsige III) was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne and is considered a saint.
Wulfsige was nominated about 993. He died on 8 January 1002.[1]
Wulfsige took part in the tenth century Benedictine monastic reform movement in England. He had been a monk of Glastonbury Abbey under Dunstan, became a monk of Westminster Abbey during Dunstan's tenure as Bishop of London, was appointed abbot of Westminster, probably from before 966, when he first occurs.[2] He was appointed to Sherborne by King Edgar the Peaceful, and held the abbacy along with the bishopric of Sherborne until at least 997.[2] It was as bishop of Sherborne that Wulfsige presided over the refoundation of the cathedral community as a Benedictine abbey in 998. In 1998 a one-day conference was held to celebrate the refoundation of the abbey of Sherbone, and a collection of essays, St Wulfsige and Sherborne, was published in 2005.[3]
Wulfsige is considered a saint and Goscelin wrote a haigiography of him.[2]
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Preceded by Æthelsige I |
Bishop of Sherborne c. 993–1002 |
Succeeded by Æthelric |