Æthelgar

Æthelgar was archbishop of Canterbury in England, and previously bishop of Selsey. He died on 13 February 990.

He was a monk at Glastonbury Abbey, then a disciple of Æthelwold, bishop of Winchester. He continued as a monk at Abingdon Abbey until 964, when Æthelwold appointed him abbot of the newly reformed monastery of New Minster at Winchester. He was consecrated bishop of Selsey on 2 May 980. He succeeded Dunstan as archbishop of Canterbury, in 988, but lived after that only about a year and three months. He may have kept his abbacy until his death.

As archbishop he received two letters from monasteries in Flanders. One, from Falrad, abbot of the monastery of Saint-⁠Vaast, asked that relations between the monastery and Canterbury remain good, as in Dunstan's time. The second, from Odbert, abbot of the monastery of Saint-⁠Bertin, congratulated him on his elevation and asked for financial help.

He is counted among the West Saxon saints of England, in the tradition of the undivided Church; our sources give no details of the cult, and no Orthodox synodal canonization is known.