Frithestan of Winchester

Frithestan of Winchester was a disciple of Saint Grimbald. In 904 he appears as a deacon witnessing two charters of King Edward the Elder, and in 909 he was consecrated bishop of Winchester by Archbishop Plegmund, on the same day as six other bishops. Soon afterwards the diocese was divided, and Wiltshire and Berkshire passed to the new see of Ramsbury.

He served until 931, when he resigned, and he reposed in 933. He is said to have loved the poor and prayed much for the departed. His relations with King Æthelstan seem to have been strained; in 1827 a stole and maniple with inscriptions, given to Frithestan by Queen Ælfflæd, were found in the tomb of Saint Cuthbert at Durham. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated in the West.

His commemoration falls on 10 September (new calendar); the Churches on the Old Calendar keep the same day of the Menaion on 23 September of the civil calendar.