Philip Repyngdon
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Philip RepyngdonTemplate:Efn (c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1424) was a bishop and cardinal.[1]
Life
It is believed Repyngdon was born in Wales in around 1345.Template:Sfn He became an Augustinian canon, first at Repton Abbey, then at Leicester Abbey where he was ordained to the priesthood on 26 May 1369.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn He may have been educated at Broadgates Hall, Oxford, although Simon Forde argues against this, since it was for law students and he was a theologian.[2] In any case, he graduated from the University of Oxford as a Doctor of Divinity in 1382.Template:Sfn
A man of learning, Repyngdon came to the front as a defender of the doctrines taught by John Wycliffe; for this he was suspended and afterwards excommunicated, but in a short time he was pardoned and restored by Archbishop William Courtenay, and he appears to have completely abandoned his unorthodox opinions.
In 1394, Repyngdon was made abbot of the abbey of Saint Mary de Pratis at Leicester, and after the accession of Henry IV to the English throne in 1399 he became chaplain and confessor to this king, being described as clericus specialissimus domini regis Henrici. From 1400 to 1403, Repyngdon was chancellor of Oxford University.Template:Sfn
On 19 November 1404, Repyngdon was chosen bishop of Lincoln, and was consecrated on 29 March 1405.Template:Sfn In 1408, Pope Gregory XII created him a cardinal,[1] however, it was not recognised in England, and the creation was revoked in 1409.Template:Sfn
In 1405, Repyngdon attempted to promote a pilgrimage site at Yarborough devoted to the Blessed Sacrament, after the church there was destroyed by fire. The pyx which contained the consecrated Host was the only thing to survive the fire, and the bishop attempted to establish a cult centre there, but it failed.Template:Sfn
His health failing, Repyngdon resigned his bishopric on 20 November 1419.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn He retired to Leicester, although his last years might have been spent in the hospital of the College of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke rather than his priory.Template:Sfn Despite his wish for a modest burial, he was buried in the south-east transept of Lincoln Cathedral. Some of Repyngdon's sermons are in manuscripts at Oxford and Cambridge.
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- 1340s births
- 1424 deaths
- 14th-century Welsh Roman Catholic priests
- 15th-century English Roman Catholic bishops
- Alumni of Broadgates Hall, Oxford
- Augustinian canons
- Bishops of Lincoln
- Chancellors of the University of Oxford
- Welsh cardinals
- Canonical Augustinian cardinals
- Lollards
- People excommunicated by the Catholic Church
- Year of birth uncertain
- Burials at Lincoln Cathedral