died 932 or 933
A disciple of St. Grimbald consecrated Bishop of Winchester by St. Plegmund, who loved the poor and prayed much for the departed (933)
Our Father among the Saints Frithestan, Bishop of Winchester
Frithestan was Bishop of Winchester in the early tenth century, holding the see from 909 until his resignation in 931. He governed one of the most significant and wealthy dioceses in Anglo-Saxon England during the reigns of Edward the Elder and Aethelstan, and is remembered in the Orthodox tradition as a disciple of St. Grimbald who was devoted to the poor and to prayer for the departed.
He is venerated as a saint, with limited historical cultus at Winchester, and his feast is kept on 10 September.
Frithestan's tenure spanned the reigns of two kings, Edward the Elder and his son Aethelstan. His relationship with Aethelstan appears to have been distant: he was absent from the king's coronation on 4 September 925, and despite his seniority among the episcopate he consistently attested royal charters in a lower position.
He governed Winchester, then among the foremost and wealthiest English sees, for more than two decades before resigning in 931.
Frithestan's name survives in connection with one of the most celebrated examples of early English embroidery. A stole and maniple, bearing inscriptions showing that they had been commissioned by Queen Aelfflaed, wife of Edward the Elder, for Bishop Frithestan of Winchester, were later given by King Aethelstan to the shrine of St. Cuthbert, probably in 934.
These vestments were rediscovered in 1827, when St. Cuthbert's tomb at Durham Cathedral was opened and the embroidered objects were found among its contents, their inscriptions preserving the association with Frithestan and the queen who had them made.