Wilfrid II (bishop of York)

{{Short description|Bishop of York from 718 to 732, Christian saint}} {{Infobox Christian leader | title = Bishop of York | consecration = 718 | appointed = 718 | ended = 732 | predecessor = John of Beverley | successor = Ecgbert | death_date = 29 April either 745 or 746 | feast_day = 29 April | venerated = Roman Catholic Church<br />Anglican Communion }}

'''Wilfrid II''' (died on 29 April in either 745 or 746), name also spelled '''Wilfrith''', also known as '''Wilfrid the Younger''', was the last bishop of York, as the see was converted to an archbishopric during the time of his successor.

==Life==

Wilfrid was a monk at Whitby and studied there when Hilda was abbess.<ref name=BSE/> In 718 he was consecrated as coadjutor bishop to John of Beverley.<ref name=Handbook224>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 224</ref>

Wilfrid was described as a very holy man, and interested in education.<ref name=Walsh624/>

Wilfrid resigned the bishopric in 732.<ref name=Handbook224/> He died on 29 April in either 745 or 746,<ref name=BSE>Lapidge "Wilfrid II" ''Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England''</ref> and was buried at Ripon, but it may have been his body that was later translated to Canterbury in the mistaken belief that it was that of the earlier Wilfrid.<ref name=Blair560>Blair "Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints" ''Local Saints and Local Churches'' p. 560</ref> The younger Wilfrid is considered a saint, with his feast day being 29 April.<ref name=Walsh624>Walsh ''A New Dictionary of Saints'' p. 624</ref> However, he was never the object of strong cult, and only occasional mentions of him occur in martyrologies.<ref name=ODS538>Farmer ''Oxford Dictionary of Saints'' p. 538</ref>

==Citations== {{Reflist|40em}}

==References== {{refbegin|60em}} * {{cite encyclopedia |author=Blair, John |title=A Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Saints |encyclopedia=Local Saints and Local Churches in the Early Medieval West |editor=Thacker, Aland |editor2=Sharpe, Richard |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, UK |year=2002 |pages=495–565|isbn=0-19-820394-2}} * {{cite book| author=Farmer, David Hugh |title=Oxford Dictionary of Saints |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |edition=Fifth |location=Oxford, UK |isbn= 978-0-19-860949-0}} * {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I.|title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }} * {{cite encyclopedia |author=Lapidge, Michael |title=Wilfrid II |page=476|encyclopedia=The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England |editor=Lapidge, Michael |editor2=Blair, John |editor3=Keynes, Simon |editor3-link=Simon Keynes |editor4=Scragg, Donald |year=2001 |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |location=Malden, MA |isbn=978-0-631-22492-1 }} * {{cite book |title= A New Dictionary of Saints: East and West |last=Walsh |first=Michael J. |year=2007 |publisher= Burns & Oats |location=London |isbn=978-0-86012-438-2 }} {{refend}}

==External links== * {{PASE|17690|Wilfrid 4}}

{{s-start}} {{s-rel| Christian titles}} {{s-bef | before=John of Beverley }} {{s-ttl| title=Bishop of York | years=718–732}} {{s-aft| after=Ecgbert }} {{s-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wilfrid}} Category:Bishops of York Category:8th-century English bishops Category:745 deaths Category:Northumbrian saints Category:8th-century Christian saints Category:Year of birth unknown Category:Yorkshire saints