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Sigeferth or Sigefirth or Sicgga, was the third
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 ...
, consecrated in 733
[Kelly]
South Saxons, kings of the (act. 477–772)
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' by
Tatwine
Tatwine ( – 30 July 734) was the tenth Archbishop of Canterbury from 731 to 734. Prior to becoming archbishop, he was a monk and abbot of a Benedictine monastery. Besides his ecclesiastical career, Tatwine was a writer, and riddles he compo ...
, the
Archbishop of Canterbury. Sigeferth was still bishop in 747, when he attended the
Synod of Clofesho.
[Kelly, ''Charters of Selsey'' p. 32] His date of death was sometime between 747 and 765.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 221]
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Bishops of Selsey
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