Thomas Wouldham (or Thomas de Wouldham or Thomas de Southflete) 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 ...
.
Wouldham was elected as
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
Rochester Cathedral
Rochester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin Mary, is in Rochester, Kent, England. The cathedral is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Rochester and seat (''cathedra'') of the Bishop of Rocheste ...
on 24 December 1283.
[British History Online Priors of Rochester]
accessed on 30 October 2007 He was elected
bishop
A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
by the chapter but renounced the election.
[British History Online Bishops of Rochester]
accessed on 30 October 2007 He was again elected bishop on 6 June 1291 and consecrated on 6 January 1292. He died on 28 February 1317.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 267]
Citations
References
British History Online Bishops of Rochesteraccessed on 30 October 2007
British History Online Priors of Rochesteraccessed on 30 October 2007
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Bishops of Rochester
13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
14th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
1317 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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