Oftfor

Family: Northumbrians · Role: bishop · First appears: Book IV · Chap. XXIII

Life events

• c. 678 · Oftfor was chosen and consecrated bishop by order of Ethelred.(Book IV · Chap. XXIII)
  • With: Ethelred Wilfrid
  • “for which reason, Oftfor was, by universal consent, chosen bishop in his stead, and by order of King Ethelred, consecrated by Bishop Wilfrid, of blessed memory”

Book IV · Chap. XXIII

• mentor: Hilda “she obliged those who were under her direction to give so much time to reading of the Holy Scriptures, and to exercise themselves so much in works of justice, that many might readily be found there fit for the priesthood and the service of the altar. Indeed we have seen five from that monastery who afterwards became bishops, and all of them men of singular merit and sanctity, whose names were Bosa, Aetla, Oftfor, John, and Wilfrid.”
• mentor: Theodore “he went into Kent, to Archbishop Theodore, of blessed memory; where having spent some time in sacred studies, he resolved to go to Rome also”
• sworn: Ethelred “Oftfor was, by universal consent, chosen bishop in his stead, and by order of King Ethelred, consecrated by Bishop Wilfrid, of blessed memory”
• sworn: Wilfrid “Oftfor was, by universal consent, chosen bishop in his stead, and by order of King Ethelred, consecrated by Bishop Wilfrid, of blessed memory”

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.