Winfrith (bishop)

Winfrith^[a] was a medieval Bishop of Lichfield.

Winfrith was consecrated in 672 and deprived of his see between 672 and 676.^[1] He was deposed by Archbishop Theodore of Canterbury for disobedience.^[2]

Notes

1. Winfred, Winfrede or Wynfrith

Citations

1. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 218
2. Stenton Anglo-Saxon England p. 137

References

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
• Stenton, F. M. (1971). Anglo-Saxon England (Third ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5.

External links

• Wynnfrith 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

7th-century Bishop of Mercia