Bifus

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

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 . 49. Cambridge: 7. doi: 10.1017/S0263675122000114 .
  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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