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__NOTOC__ Wærstan was a medieval
Bishop of Sherborne The Bishop of Sherborne is an episcopal title which takes its name from the market town of Sherborne in Dorset, England. The see of Sherborne was established in around 705 by St Aldhelm, the Abbot of Malmesbury. This see was the mother diocese of ...
, venerated as a saint in the
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and
Eastern Orthodox Eastern Orthodoxy, also known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...
churches. Wærstan was consecrated around 909. He died either in 918 or between around 909 and 925.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 222


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* Bishops of Sherborne (ancient) 10th-century English bishops {{saint-stub