t) WINCHKSTEU. tlicrc, and settled him at Dorchester in the year 635-. lie died ^vd Dec. 6^H and was succeeded by 650 Akgilbkuht, who was made bishop of the West Saxons in 650, but his utter ignorance of the Saxon language was so displeasing to the King that he ai)pointed Wini to assist him. Wini, though educated in France, was a native of the island, and consequently familiar with the Saxon tongue. The bishopric of the West Saxons was thus divided into two sees ' — one con- tinued at Dorchester and the other was settled at A'inchester Aegilberht retired to France in disgust, and became bishop of Paris ^. 661 ^VI^'I or WiNA was ordained bishop in 661", but he was expelled from the see in the year 666, and purchased the bishopric of London from W^ulfhcri^. After the expulsion of ^^'ini this sec remained four years with- out a bishop. 670 Leutheuius (the nephew of Aegilberht, the second ^ Beda, H. E. lib. iii. c. -. An- no ab incarnato verl){) ncxxxv, bcatiis Hirinus Pontifex doctor egregius, et monachus ordinis Sancti Benedicti, (pii habitum jnonaslicuin suscej)it in mona- sterio Sancti Andrese Romae, (jiiod beatus (Jre^rorius construx- orat, missus ab Ilonorio venit in terram Gewyseorum ; et regem illius provinci.T Kyncgilsum no- mine, cum omni populo illius regionis ad Christi fidem ron- vcrtit. Thom. Iludborne. Hist. Maj. Winton. • Anno dominicir Incarnalio- nis DCXLVIM. et anno rrprni Re- giy Kynt'waldi viii beatus Birinus primus occidentalium Saxonum pontifex, migravit ad Dominum. (Ibid.) The eighth year of Cy- negilH however corresponds with the dominical year 650. •« Beda, H. K. lib.' iii. c. 7. •'• Winchester cathedral is said to have been erected by kin^ Lucius, circa an. 180, and dedi- cated 29th Oct. 189. During the empire of Diocletian it was dese- crated and ruined, but it was shortly afterwards rebuilt, and dedicated to Amj)hibalus the Martyr. After an interval of 200 years, it was again profaned by Cerdic, the first king of the Giwissi, and in the year 638 it was razed to the ground by Cy- negils his successor. ^ Steph. Iledd. in vita Wil- fridi. c. 12. " On the retirement of Ae;^- berht to France in 661, Wini go- verned Dorchester as well as Winchester, as did also lA'ulhe- rius and llaedde ; and Dor- chester seems to have been the seat of the bishops until the time <.f llaed.ie. " Bedn, H. K. lib. iii. c. 7. '• Hlothere (Sax. Chron. ad ann. 670), Eleutherius.
