Wine (bishop)

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name =Wine


religion =Catholic
See =Diocese of London
Title = Bishop of London
Period = 666–"c". 670
Predecessor = Cedd
Successor =Erkenwald
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bishops = Bishop of Winchester
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date of birth =
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date of death =between 666 and 675
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Wine (or Wini) was a medieval Bishop of London and the first Bishop of Winchester.

He was consecrated the first bishop of Winchester in 662 and translated to London in 666. He may have taken an intermediate step at Dorchester.Powicke "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 257]

Bede tells us that Wine was ordained bishop in the Frankish kingdom [Bede: Ecclesiastical History of the English people, Book 3, Chapter 7] and that King Cenwalh of Wessex installed him after disagreements with the previous Frankish bishop, Agilbert. Wine too was forced to leave after a few years and took refuge with Wulfhere, king of Mercia, who installed him in London.

In 665, while in Wessex, Wine took part with two Welsh bishops in the ordination of Chad as bishop of the Northumbrians [Bede:Ecclesiastical History of the English people, Book 3, Chapter 28] , an act that was uncanonical because the other two bishops' ordination was not recognised by Rome. This would have resulted in his being disciplined, along with Chad, by Theodore of Tarsus, the new archbishop of Canterbury, who arrived in 669 [Bede:Ecclesiastical History of the English people, Book 4, Chapter 2] . Since Bede does not list him among the miscreants at this point, it is possible he had died by this date.

Powicke gives his date of death as between 666 and 675.Powicke "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 238]

ee also

* List of bishops of Winchester

Notes

References

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

External links

* [http://www.pase.ac.uk/pase/apps/persons/CreatePersonFrames.jsp?personKey=1823 Prosopography of Anglo Saxon England entry for Wine]

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ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Wini
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Bishop of London; Bishop of Winchester
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DATE OF DEATH=circa 670
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