sentences:  Walter was consecrated on 15 April 1061 by Pope Nicholas II at Rome.He, along with Giso, who was elected to the see of Wells, and Tostig Godwinson, went to Rome for consecration because Stigand, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was excommunicated and could not consecrate bishops.They were unable to have the Archbishop of York consecrate them, because Ealdred, who was the appointee to York, had not yet received his pallium, the symbol of the authority of an archbishop, and was in fact traveling to Rome with Giso and Walter to receive it.