__NOTOC__ Werferth was an English bishop of Worcester. Werferth was consecrated either in 872 or between 869 and 872.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 224 A contemporary and friend of Alfred the Great, he was a significant translator, from Latin into

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the mid-5th c ...

. His translations include the ''Dialogues of Gregory'', commissioned by Alfred.Alfred and the Old English Prose of his Reign
accessed on 6 September 2007 He died either in 915 or between 907 and 915.

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