Daniel of Winchester

Daniel
Bishop of Winchester
Church	Christian
Appointed	705
Term ended	744
Predecessor	Hædde
Successor	Hunfrith
Personal details
Died	after 744

Daniel (Danihel) of Winchester (died 745 AD) was Bishop of the West Saxons, and Bishop of Winchester from c. 705 to 744.

The prominent position which he held among the English clergy of his time can best be appreciated from the fact that he was the intimate friend of Aldhelm at Sherborne, of Bede at Jarrow and of Boniface in Germany. He was one of Bede's informants for historical information contained in Bede's Ecclesiastical History.

Daniel was consecrated to succeed Hædde whose vast diocese was then broken up;Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, and Berkshire became the see of Sherborne under Aldhelm, while Daniel retained only Hampshire, Surrey, and Sussex, and of these Sussex soon after was constituted a separate diocese. It was while he was bishop that the diocese for the South Saxons was established at Selsey.

Daniel like Aldhelm had been educated under the Irish scholar Maildubh at Malmesbury Abbey and it was to Malmesbury that he retired in his old age when loss of sight compelled him to resign the bishopric. There, no doubt, he had also learnt the scholarship for which he was famous among his contemporaries and which made Bede turn to him as the man best able to supply information regarding the church history of the south and west of Britain. Daniel, however, is best remembered for his intimate connection with St. Boniface. It was from Daniel that the latter received commendatory letters when he started for Rome, and to Daniel he continually turned for counsel during his missionary labours in Germany.

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