The abbey church of St. Peter's monastery, founded by King Athelstan around 928, became his cathedral (on a different site from the present Exeter Cathedral), and he was installed as Bishop of Exeter there by King Edward and Queen Edith themselves, in the presence of several other bishops. Edward then moved the monks of St. Peter's to his new Westminster Abbey in London, and Bishop Leofric replaced them with prebendaries he appointed at St. Peter's.
Bishop Leofric survived William the Conqueror's 1068 siege of Exeter and remained bishop until he died in 1072 and was buried in the crypt of his cathedral.
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