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Wine (died before 672) was a medieval
Bishop of London
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, having earlier been consecrated the first
Bishop of Winchester
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.
Wine was
consecrated
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the first
bishop of Winchester
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in 660 and possibly translated to
Dorchester around 663.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 223] In 666, he was translated from Dorchester to London.
[Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 239]
Bede
Bede ( ; ang, Bǣda , ; 672/326 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, The Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable ( la, Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk at the monastery of St Peter and its companion monastery of St Paul in the Kingdom ...
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
Cenwalh, also Cenwealh or Coenwalh, was King of Wessex from c. 642 to c. 645 and from c. 648 until his death, according to the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', in c. 672.
Penda and Anna
Bede states that Cenwalh was the son of the King Cynegils bapt ...
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,
[Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 49] after a payment to Wulfhere.
[Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 95]
In 665, while in Wessex, Wine took part with two Welsh or British bishops in the ordination of
Chad
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as bishop of the Northumbrians,
[Kirby ''Earliest English Kings'' p. 88] 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
Theodore of Tarsus ( gr, Θεόδωρος Ταρσοῦ; 60219 September 690) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 668 to 690. Theodore grew up in Tarsus, but fled to Constantinople after the Persian Empire conquered Tarsus and other cities. Afte ...
, the new archbishop of
Canterbury
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, 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.
Wine died sometime before 672.
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Bishops of Dorchester (Wessex)
Bishops of London
Bishops of Winchester
7th-century English bishops