Ascelin (or Anselm) was a medieval
Bishop of Rochester
The Bishop of Rochester is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Rochester in the Province of Canterbury.
The town of Rochester, Kent, Rochester has the bishop's seat, at the Rochester Cathedral, Cathedral Chur ...
.
Ascelin was
prior
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* Prior (ecclesiastical), the head of a priory (monastery)
* Prior convictions, the life history and previous convictions of a suspect or defendant in a criminal case
* Prior probability, in Bayesian statistics
* Prio ...
of
Dover Priory
The Priory of St. Mary the Virgin and Martin of Tours, St. Martin of the New Work, or Newark, commonly called Dover Priory, was a priory at Dover in southeast England. It was variously independent in rule, then occupied by canons regular of t ...
in
Kent
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before being selected as bishop.
[British History Online Bishops of Rochester]
accessed on 30 October 2007 He was consecrated in 1142. He died on 24 January 1148.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 267]
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British History Online Bishops of Rochesteraccessed on 30 October 2007
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Bishops of Rochester
12th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
1148 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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