 Abbot Eadberht of Selsey would have been president of the brotherhood in 709 and according to "Bede" was consecrated the first Bishop of the South Saxons Diocese by synodal decree.From the time of Wilfrid till after the Norman Conquest, when the See was transferred to Chichester, there were about twenty-two Bishops over a period of 370 years.The See was transferred after the Council of London of 1075, which decreed that Sees should be centred in cities.