Ælfwold II (bishop of Sherborne)
Ælfwold II | |
|---|---|
Bishop of Sherborne | |
| Appointed | 1045 |
| Term ended | 1058 |
| Predecessor | Brithwine II |
| Successor | Herman |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 1045 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | unknown |
| Died | 1058 |
| Denomination | Christian |
| Sainthood | |
| Feast day | 25 March |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church Anglican Communion |
| Shrines | Sherborne Abbey, Dorset (destroyed) |
Ælfwold II.
Life
Little is known of Ælfwold apart from the information given by
Danish
monarchs.
Ælfwold showed great devotion to Saint Swithun, his old patron of Winchester, and also to Saint Cuthbert, to whose shrine at Durham he made a pilgrimage. He died while singing the antiphon of Saint Cuthbert. He was in a sense the last Bishop of Sherborne, as after his death the see of Sherborne was united to that of Ramsbury in Wiltshire.
Ælfwold died in 1058.[2] He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church and by some Anglicans.
Notes
- Latin: Ælfwoldus, Ælfvoldus, or Alfvoldus
Citations
- ^ Thurston, Herbert. "St. Alfwold." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 1 Jan. 2013
- ^ a b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 222
References
- Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
External links
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thurston, Herbert (1907). "St. Alfwold". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.