Philip Repyngdon

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name =Philip Repyngdon


religion =Catholic
See =Diocese of Lincoln
Title = Bishop of Lincoln
Period = 1404–1419
Predecessor = Henry Beaufort
Successor =Richard Fleming
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date of death =1424
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Philip Repyngdon (or Repington, or Repyndon) (died 1424) was an English bishop and cardinal.

He was educated at the Oxford and became an Augustinian canon at Leicester before 1382.

A man of some learning, he came to the front as a defender of the doctrines taught by John Wycliffe; for this he was suspended and afterwards excommunicated, but in a short time he was pardoned and restored by Archbishop William Courtenay, and he appears to have completely abandoned his unorthodox opinions.

In 1394 he was made abbot of St Mary de Pré at Leicester, and after the accession of Henry IV to the English throne in 1399 he became chaplain and confessor to this king, being described as "clericus specialissimus domini regis Henrici".

On 19 November 1404 he was chosen bishop of Lincoln, and he was consecrated on 29 March 1405.Powicke "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 236] In 1408 Pope Gregory XII made him a cardinal. He resigned his bishopric on 20 November 1419. Some of Repyngdon's sermons are in manuscript at Oxford and at Cambridge.

In 1405, he attempted to promote a pilgrimage site at Yarborough devoted to the Host, after the church there was destroyed by fire. The pyx which contained the consecrated Host was the only thing to survive the fire, and the bishop attempted to establish a cult center there, but it failed.Swanson "Religion and Devotion" p. 138]

ee also

* List of bishops of Lincoln and precursor offices

Notes

References

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* Powicke, F. Maurice and E. B. Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" 2nd. ed. London:Royal Historical Society 1961
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