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Wilfrid (ST Bishop of York born)

ST., Bishop of York; born in Northumbria in 634. He was brought up in the monastery of Lindisfarne, but at 18 visited Rome, returning in 658 a warm partisan of the Roman party in the controversy with the native Church on the shape of the tonsure and the time of keeping Easter. At the synod of Whitby (664) he contended against Bishop Colman, and succeeded in gaining over the king, who learning it was only St. Peter to whom the keys had been given, thought it most prudent to be on his side lest Peter should pay him out in