• Ælfheah[a][b] (c. 953 – 19 April 1012), more commonly known today as Alphege, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • In 1006, Ælfheah succeeded Ælfric as Archbishop of Canterbury, taking Swithun’s head with him as a relic for the new location.
  • In 1006 Ælfheah was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury. He took St Swithun’s head to Canterbury with him and also encouraged the cult of St Dunstan there.
  • Ælfheah of Canterbury. 954 - 1012. ... Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ælfheah of Canterbury has received more than 263,810 page views.
  • Alphege Ælfheah, or Alphege (954 –1012), was the first Archbishop of Canterbury to be martyred. He became a monk at Deerhurst at a young age...
  • Ælfheah was canonized as a saint in 1078. Thomas Becket, a later Archbishop of Canterbury, prayed to him just before his own murder in Canterbury...
  • One of the great holy martyrs of the English Church, Ælfhéah of Canterbury (nowadays often rendered as ‘Alphege’), is celebrated today in the Orthodox Church.
  • Saint Alphege is the commonly used named for Ælfheah (954 - 19 April 1012), the Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester and, later, Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Not only is today my birthday, it is the feast of St. Alphege (Ælfheah) of Canterbury (954-19 April, 1012) — 1000 years after the man died in a morbidly humorous...
  • Saint Ælfheah of Canterbury, more commonly known as ‘Alphege’, was born in 953 outside of Bath in southern England.