Wulsin

Saint Wulsin was a monk, abbot of Westminster and then bishop of Sherborne in England, and he reposed on 8 January 1002. He is also called Wulfsige III or Vulsin.

He had been a monk of Glastonbury under Saint Dunstan and then of Westminster, where Dunstan, then bishop of London, loved him as a son and made him abbot; some sources therefore give the date 980, but he appears as abbot already before 966. King Edgar the Peaceful appointed him to the see of Sherborne, around 993, and he held the abbacy and the bishopric together until at least 997. As bishop he replaced the secular clergy of the cathedral with monks and in 998 refounded the cathedral community as a Benedictine abbey. He was one of the supporters of monastic reform in tenth-⁠century England.

According to Matthew of Westminster, at the hour of his death he cried out, singing, that he saw the heavens opened and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. His life was written by Goscelin. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 8 January (new style).