Wighard

Infobox Archbishop of Canterbury
Full name = Wighard


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began=unknown
consecration = never consecrated
term_end = 664
predecessor = Deusdedit of Canterbury
successor = Theodore of Tarsus
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death_date = 664
deathplace = Rome
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Wighard (or Wigheard) was a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury.

Life

Wighard was a Roman Catholic Saxon priest of the late 7th century, and a native of Kent.Bateson "Wigheard (d. 664x7)" "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"] He served in the household of Archbishop Deusdedit of Canterbury.Stenton "Anglo-Saxon England" p. 130] Bede says that in 664, he was selected to be the Archbishop of Canterbury by Oswiu of Northumbria and Ecgberht of Kent, and that he was sent to Rome visit Pope Vitalian for confirmation and to receive his pallium.Hindley "A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons" p. 47] Others, however, feel that only Ecgberht selected Wicheard. However he was selected, he died before his consecration in Rome, due to the bubonic plague, probably around 664.Fryde, et. al. "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 213] His death in Rome allowed Vitalian the opportunity to choose his successor, and Vitalian chose his friend Theodore of Tarsus to become the next archbishop.

Notes

References

* Bateson, Mary "Wigheard (d. 664x7)" rev. Marios Costambeys, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29369 Online edition] accessed 7 November 2007
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* Hindley, Geoffrey "A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons: The beginnings of the English nation" New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2006 ISBN 978-0-78671738-5
* Stenton, F. M. "Anglo-Saxon England" Third Edition Oxford:Oxford University Press 1971 ISBN 978-0-19-280139-5

External links

* [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bede/history.v.iii.xxix.html "Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England", Volume III, Chapter XXIX]
* [http://www.pase.ac.uk/pase/apps/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey=1816 Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England Entry for Wigheard]

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