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» For the second Bishop of Winchester of this name and all other homonyms see Æthelwold
Saint Æthelwold of Winchester (also spelled
Aethelwald,
Ethelwold, etc) (
909-
984) was a
10th century Bishop of Winchester and leader of the monastic reform movement in
Anglo-Saxon England.
Life
Æthelwold was born in
Winchester of good parentage in about 909. After a youth spent at the court of
King Athelstan, Æthelwold placed himself under
Alphege the Bald, Bishop of Winchester, who gave him the tonsure and ordained him
priest along with Saint
Dunstan. Æthelwold became a monk at
Glastonbury Abbey, where he was
dean during Dunstan's abbacy, until about 955 when he was appointed
Abbot of Abingdon.
On
29 November 963, he was consecrated Bishop of Winchester by Saint Dunstan, and with
Oswald of Worcester, he worked zealously in combating the general corruption occasioned by the
Danish inroads into the country. At Winchester, both in the
Old and the
New Minster, he replaced the
secular clergy with monks and refounded the ancient nunnery known as
Nunnaminster. His labours extended to
Chertsey,
Milton,
Ely,
Peterborough,
Thorney and elsewhere; expelling the unworthy, rebuilding and restoring. The epithets "father of monks" and "benevolent bishop" summarize Æthelwold's character as reformer and friend of Christ's poor. Though he suffered much from ill-health, his life as scholar, teacher, prelate and Royal counsellor was ever austere, said to be "terrible as a lion" to the rebellious, yet "gentler than a dove" to the meek. He is said to have written a treatise on the circle and to have translated the "Regularis Concordia".
[ He died on 1 August 984][ at Beddington in Surrey.][
]Veneration
He was buried in the Old Minster at Winchester, his body being translated by Alphege, his successor, and then again into the new Cathedral. By the 12th century, Abingdon Abbey had acquired an arm and a leg.(External Link
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His liturgical feast is kept on 1 August.[Further Information]
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