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{{Infobox Christian leader
| name           =Wilgred
| image          =
| religion       = Christian
| bishop_of          = [[Bishop of Lindisfarne]]
| enthroned = {{circa|925}}
| ended = maybe 942
| predecessor    = [[Tilred of Lindisfarne|Tilred]]
| successor      =[[Uchtred of Lindisfarne|Uchtred]]
| consecration     =
| death_date = c. 942
}}
'''Wigred''' (or '''Wilgred'''<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05211a.htm The Catholic Encyclopedia] accessed on 29 August 2007</ref>) (died c. 942) was appointed [[Bishop of Chester-le-Street]] around 925.<ref>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 214</ref> He was also known as the Bishop of the Church of St Cuthbert. He attested charters of King Æthelstan between 928 and 934, and the bishopric in his time was probably the greatest landholder between the Tees and the Tyne.<ref>Keynes, Attestations, Table XXXVII; Molyneaux, ''The Formation of the English Kingdom'', p. 30</ref>
==Citations==
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==References==
* [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05211a.htm The Catholic Encyclopedia] accessed on 29 August 2007
* {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
* {{cite web|url=http://www.kemble.asnc.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/XXXVII_%20Athelstan%20Bishops%20etc.pdf|first=Simon|last=Keynes|title=Table XXXVII: Attestations of ecclesiastics during the reign of King Æthelstan|publisher=Kemble: The Anglo-Saxon Charters Website}}
* {{cite book |last=Molyneaux|first=George|title=The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-871791-1}}
==External links==
* {{PASE|9310|Wigred 4}}
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