ETHELWOLD, Saint. - Bishop of Winchester, b. ca. 908, d. August 1, 984. First a monk at Glastonbury under St. Dunstan, ca. 954 by the will of King Edred he was made abbot of the monastery of Abingdon, in which he revived religious discipline. In 963 he was elected bishop of Winchester and was consecrated by St. Dunstan, with whom he collaborated in reforming the decadent ecclesiastical discipline, especially by rebuilding churches and monasteries, devastated by the frequent Danish incursions, and by the education of youth, supported by King Edgar, with whom he was on intimate terms.

A splendid Benedictional (liturgical book) written by his order while he was bishop of Winchester is preserved (cf. DACL, II, cols. 735-39).

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BIBL.: The Life written by Adlfrid, ed. I. Stevenson, in Chronicon monasterii de Abingdon, II, London 1858, pp. 253-66; and that written by Volcano in Acta SS. Augusti, I, Antwerp 1733, pp. 88-98; H. W. Keim, E. und die Möncheraform in England, in Anglia, 39 (1917), pp. 304-43; cf. also F. Warmold, The english saints in the litany ecc., in Anal. Bull., 64 (1946), p. 74.

Alberto Ghinato

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Ethelwold, Saint

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