Wilfrid
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Wilfrid was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Francia, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbr
7th-century crypt at Hexham monastery, where Wilfrid may have deposited any relics he brought back from the continent
Later engraving of a picture commissioned in c.1533 showing Cædwalla confirming a grant of land, at Selsey, to Wilfrid
Wilfrid (right), with saints Cuthbert (centre) and Aidan (left), depicted in a stained-glass window in the church of St John Lee near Acomb in Northumberland; Hexham Abbey is nearby.
Ripon Cathedral
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The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, commonly known as Ripon Cathedral, and until 1836 known as Ripon Minster, is a cathedral in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England. Founded as a monastery by
Wilfrid
…to appeal against the decision. His opponents in Northumbria excommunicated him, but the papacy upheld Wilfrid's side, and he regained possession of Ripon and Hexham, his Northumbrian monasteries. Wilfrid died in 709 or 710. After his death, he was venerated as a saint. Historians then and now have been…
The west front of the cathedral
Cathedral with its two west towers (left) and its central tower
The nave
Engraving of the west front.