Sicgred of Ripon

Saint Sicgred of Ripon (Sigered) was abbot of the monastery at Ripon in Northumbria, in England, in the eighth century. After the death of Abbot Ealdberht in 788 he was elected in his place. A writer of about the year 1000 relates that Saint Oswald, Archbishop of York, found Botwine's relics at Ripon and placed them in a shrine with those of Saints Wilfrid, Tiatberht, Alberht, Sigered and Vilden; a modern scholar, however, finds the account problematic on other points. He is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated at Ripon and Peterborough.