__NOTOC__ Wilfrith or Wilfrid was a medieval

Bishop of Worcester The Bishop of Worcester is the Ordinary (officer), head of the Church of England Anglican Diocese of Worcester, Diocese of Worcester in the Province of Canterbury, England. The title can be traced back to the foundation of the diocese in the ...

. He was consecrated in 718. In 735, he consecrated one Eva as the third abbess of

Gloucester Abbey Gloucester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of St Peter and the Holy and Indivisible Trinity and formerly St Peter's Abbey, in Gloucester, England, stands in the north of the city near the River Severn. It originated with the establishme ...

."Houses of Benedictine monks: The abbey of St Peter at Gloucester". ''A History of the County of Gloucester'', Volume 2. (William Page, ed.) London: Victoria County History, 1907. 53-61. British History Online
/ref> Wilfrith died between 743 and 745, perhaps on 29 April 744.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 223

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* Bishops of Worcester 8th-century English bishops 743 deaths {{England-bishop-stub