Tota (bishop)

This article is about the 8th century Bishop of Selsey. For other uses, see Tota.

Tota
Bishop of Selsey
Appointed	between 781 and 786
Term ended	between 786 and 789
Predecessor	Gislhere
Successor	Wihthun
Orders
Consecration	between 781 and 786
Personal details
Died	between 786 and 789
Denomination	Christian

Tota ^[a] was a Bishop of Selsey when Sussex was being ruled by Offa of Mercia.

Not very much is known of Tota but he is recorded as present at a church council (Synod of Calcuthiens) attended by papal legates in 786. ^{[b] [3] [4]} He was consecrated between 781 and 786. ^[5]

Tota died between 786 and 789. ^[5]

Notes

1. Also Thoha, Totta, or Toha ^[1]
2. In 786, Pope Hadrian sent his legates George, bishop of Ostia, and Theophylact, bishop of Todi, to England, to investigate the state of the English church and root out any heresy that might be found there. A report of the legates survives. It includes Tota's name, in the subscription list. ^[2]

Citations

1. Heron-Allen Selsey Bill p. 113
2. Whitelock. EHD 191
3. Heron-Allen Selsey Bill p. 120
4. Kelly Charters of Selsey p. lxxxix
5. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221

References

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-56350-X.
• Heron-Allen, Edward (1911). Selsey Bill. Historic and Prehistoric. London: Duckworth.
• Kelly, S. E. (1998). Charters of Selsey. Anglo-Saxon Charters VI. Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-726175-2.
• Whitelock, Dorothy (1955). The Report of the Legates to Hadrian [191]. English Historical Documents c.500-1042. Vol. 1. Eyre & Spottiswood.

External links

• Tota 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Christian titles
Preceded by Gislhere	Bishop of Selsey	Succeeded by Wihthun