Tota (bishop)

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	Catholic

Tota (also Thoha, Totta, or Toha^[1]), 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.^[2][3] He was consecrated between 781 and 786.^[4]

Tota died between 786 and 789.^[4]

Citations

1. Heron-Allen Selsey Bill p. 113
2. Heron-Allen Selsey Bill p. 120
3. Kelly Charters of Selsey p. lxxxix
4. 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.

External links

• Tota 1 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England