Bifus
Bishop of the East Angles
Appointedc. 664
Term ended672
PredecessorBrigilsus
SuccessorSee divided into Dunwich and Elmham
Orders
Consecration669 or 670
Personal details
Diedunknown
DenominationChristian

Bifus or Bisi was a medieval Bishop of the East Angles.

Bifus' consecration is normally dated to 669 or 670. However, there is reason to suspect the Venerable Bede made a mistake and he was actually consecrated in 664.[1] He resigned the see in 672. He was the last bishop of the East Angles.[2]

Bede in his history, records that he attended the Council of Hertford in 672.[3] When he resigned, his bishopric was divided into the sees of Dunwich and Elmham.[4]

References

  1. ^ Platts, Calum (2023). "'Bede, Bishops and Bisi of East Anglia: Questions of Chronology and Episcopal Consecration in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'". Anglo-Saxon England. Cambridge. 49: 7.
  2. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 216. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
  3. ^ Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge. pp. 20–21. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.
  4. ^ Kirby, D. P. (2000). The Earliest English Kings. New York: Routledge. p. 98. ISBN 0-415-24211-8.

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Medieval Bishops of the East Angles and of Dunwich
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