Wulfsige III

This article is about the 10th century Bishop of Sherborne. For other uses, see Wulfsige.

Wulfsige III
Bishop of Sherborne
Appointed	c. 993
Term ended	8 January 1002
Predecessor	Æthelsige I
Successor	Æthelric
Personal details
Died	8 January 1002
Denomination	Christian

Wulfsige (or Wulfsige III) was a medieval Bishop of Sherborne and is considered a saint.

Wulfsige was nominated about 993. He died on 8 January 1002.

Wulfsige took part in the tenth century Benedictine monastic reform movement in England. He had been a monk of Glastonbury Abbey under Dunstan, became a monk of Westminster Abbey during Dunstan's tenure as Bishop of London, was appointed abbot of Westminster, probably from before 966, when he first occurs. He was appointed to Sherborne by King Edgar the Peaceful, and held the abbacy along with the bishopric of Sherborne until at least 997. It was as bishop of Sherborne that Wulfsige presided over the refoundation of the cathedral community as a Benedictine abbey in 998. In 1998 a one-day conference was held to celebrate the refoundation of the abbey of Sherbone, and a collection of essays, St Wulfsige and Sherborne, was published in 2005.

Wulfsige is considered a saint and Goscelin wrote a haigiography of him.

External links

• Wulfsige 36 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Æthelsige I	Bishop of Sherborne c. 993–1002	Succeeded by Æthelric