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Eolla,
Bishop of Selsey
The Bishop of Chichester is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Chichester in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers the counties of East and West Sussex. The see is based in the City of Chichester where the bishop's sea ...
, was the successor of
Eadberht, and seems to have previously been
Abbot of Selsey
Selsey Abbey was founded by St Wilfrid in AD 681 on land donated at Selsey by the local Anglo-Saxon ruler, King Æðelwealh of Sussex, Sussex's first Christian king. The Kingdom of Sussex was the last area of Anglo-Saxon England to be evang ...
, as he witnessed a charter
Anglo-Saxons.net Charter S44
accessed on 25 August 2007 of Noðhelm together with Osric and Eadberht. He seems to have succeeded as bishop in either 716 or 717. His date of death is sometime between 716 and 731.[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 221]
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Bishops of Selsey
8th-century English bishops
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