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Wilfrid
Wilfrid was a Northumbrian bishop and saint who championed Roman church practice at the Synod of Whitby in 664 and became Bishop of York. Repeatedly expelled after quarrels with kings and archbishops, he appealed twice to Rome, and during one exile he converted the South Saxons in the 680s and founded a monastery at Selsey. He also founded monasteries at Ripon and Hexham.
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