Alnothus

Alnothus
Church	Catholic
See	Bishop of Dorchester
In office	c970–c977
Predecessor	Leofwine, Bishop of Lincoln
Successor	Ascwinus
Personal details
Died	c977

Alnothus (or Alfnoth or Ælfnoth) was a medieval Bishop of Dorchester, when the town was seat of the united dioceses of Lindsey and Dorchester.

He was consecrated between 965 and 975 and died between 975 and 979.^[1]

Notes

↑ Powicke Handbook of British Chronology p. 219

References

Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde Handbook of British Chronology 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961

External links

Ælfnoth 18 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England

Religious titles
Preceded by Leofwine	Bishop of Dorchester c970–c977	Succeeded by Ascwinus

Bishops of Dorchester (Medieval and modern)

Wessex diocese	Birinus Agilbert Ætla

Mercian diocese	Harlardus Wigmund Coenwulf Wynsige Æthelwold Oscytel

United diocese	Leofwine Alnothus Æscwig Ælfhelm Eadnoth the Younger Æthelric Eadnoth (II) Ulfus Normanus Wulfwig Remigius de Fécamp

Oxford suffragan	Gerald Allen Kenneth Riches David Loveday Peter Walker Conrad Meyer (became first area bishop)

Oxford area bishops	Conrad Meyer Anthony Russell Colin Fletcher

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