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{{for|the airport in Cairo, Egypt, assigned ICAO code HECA|Cairo International Airport}}

{{short description|11th-century Bishop of Selsey}}

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{{Infobox Christian leader

| name =Heca

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| religion = Christian

| title = Bishop of Selsey

| appointed = 1047

| ended = 1057

| predecessor = Grimketel

| successor =Æthelric II

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| bishops =

| other_post = royal chaplain

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| birth_place =

| death_date = 1057

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Hecca (or Heca) was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Selsey. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Hecca was chaplain to Edward the Confessor and became bishop when Grimketel died in 1047.Swanton Anglo Saxon Chronicle pp. 164–166{{efn|There is variance on the date of Grimketels death and Hecas accession between the various versions of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle manuscript (MS) C suggests that Grimketel died in 1047. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle MS E, MS F and MS D he could also have died in 1045, 1046 or 1047}} He was an Englishman, and a royal clerk.Barlow Edward the Confessor p. 86Barlow English Church 1000–1066 p. 76 He died in 1057.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 221Swanton Anglo Saxon Chronicle p. 188{{efn|Anglo-Saxon Chronicle versions E and F give his date of death as 1058, the other manuscripts cite 1057.}}

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  • {{cite book |author=Barlow, Frank |authorlink=Frank Barlow (historian) |title=Edward the Confessor |publisher=University of California Press |location=Berkeley, CA |year=1970 |isbn=0-520-01671-8 }}
  • {{cite book |author=Barlow, Frank |authorlink=Frank Barlow (historian) |title=The English Church 1000–1066: A History of the Later Anglo-Saxon Church |publisher=Longman |location=New York |year=1979 |isbn=0-582-49049-9 |edition=Second}}
  • {{cite book |last1=Fryde |first1=E. B. |last2=Greenway |first2=D. E. |last3=Porter |first3=S. |last4=Roy |first4=I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
  • {{Cite book|editor-last=Swanton|editor-first=Michael James|title=The Anglo Saxon chronicle|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|date=1998|isbn=978-0-415-92129-9 }}

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External links

  • {{PASE|185528|Heca 1}}

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{{s-bef | before = Grimketel }}

{{s-ttl | title = Bishop of Selsey | years =1047–1057 }}

{{s-aft | after = Æthelric II}}

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Category:1057 deaths

Category:Bishops of Selsey

Category:11th-century English Roman Catholic bishops

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