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Sigeferth or Sigefirth or Sicgga, was the third
Bishop of Selsey
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, consecrated in 733
[Kelly]
South Saxons, kings of the (act. 477–772)
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' by
Tatwine
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, the
Archbishop of Canterbury
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. 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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