Wilfrid resigned the bishopric in 732,[2] or was deposed, devoting the last portion of his life to solitude and prayer in a now-unknown monastery. [200], One commentator has said that Wilfrid "came into conflict with almost every prominent secular and ecclesiastical figure of the age". However, as the Irish church had never been Quartodecimans, Stephen in this instance was constructing a narrative to put Wilfrid in the best light. [84][j] The council had been called to deal with the Monothelete controversy, and Wilfrid's concerns were not the sole focus of the council.

Æthelthryth donated the land at Hexham where Wilfrid founded a monastery and built a church using some recycled stones from the Roman town of Corbridge. Fece appena in tempo a rientrare nel suo monastero di Ripon dove, accettando parzialmente lo smembramento del suo arcivescovato, si riconciliò con la gerarchia ecclesiastica in patria prima di morire nel 709 nei pressi di Oundle, nel Northamptonshire[6].
The church in Northumbria had traditionally used the Celtic method, and that was the date observed by King Oswiu. [197] Wilfrid is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church[190] and the Anglican Communion. Easter tables, used to calculate the correct date to celebrate Easter, were brought in from Rome where the Dionysiac Easter tables had been recently introduced. [21] The crypts at both Ripon and Hexham are unusual, and perhaps were intended by Wilfrid to mimic the Roman catacombs which he had seen on his travels. Although Oswiu himself had been brought up in the "Celtic" tradition, political pressures may have influenced his decision to call a council, as well as fears that if dissent over the date of Easter continued in the Northumbrian church it could lead to internal strife. [21][l], Wilfrid appears to have lived at Ripon, and for a time he acted as administrator of the see of Lindisfarne after Cuthbert's death in 687. During his stay, Wilfrid attempted to convert the Frisians, who were still pagan at that time. Teodoro rispose a questa manifestazione di dissenso consacrando i tre nuovi vescovi nella stessa Cattedrale di York. [1] He was consecrated abbot of the cathedral community in York during 718,[citation needed] and in 718 was consecrated as coadjutor bishop to John of Beverley.[2]. [27] Stephen's Vita is concerned with vindicating Wilfrid and making a case for his sainthood, and so is used with caution by historians,[139][188] although it is nevertheless an invaluable source for Wilfrid's life and the history of the time. [43], Wilfrid left Kent for Rome in the company of Benedict Biscop,[44] another of Eanflæd's contacts. In it, Aldhelm asks the clergymen to remember the exiled bishop "who, nourishing, teaching, reproving, raised you in fatherly love" and appealing to lay aristocratic ideals of loyalty, urges them not to abandon their superior. [170] Ælfflæd, sister of King Aldfrith of Northumbria and daughter of Wilfrid's old patron Queen Eanflæd, helped to persuade the Northumbrians to allow Wilfrid to return from his last exile.

[130], Wilfrid returned to England after the council via Gaul.
Political concerns unrelated to the dating problem, such as the decline of Oswiu's preeminence among the other English kingdoms and the challenge to that position by Mercia, were also factors. [27] According to Wilfrid's later biographer, Stephen of Ripon, Wilfrid left Biscop's company at Lyon, where Wilfrid stayed under the patronage of Annemund, the archbishop. Tuttavia, dopo un breve periodo di riconciliazione, Vilfrido entrò nuovamente in contrasto anche con Aldfrith, il quale chiese di riconoscere i cambiamenti attuati da Teodoro, ma anche questa volta, appellandosi alla volontà del papato, Vilfrido si recò per la terza volta a Roma nel 704 per rivendicare i suoi diritti. The Oratory Church of Saint Wilfrid, York is a Roman Catholic church in York, England. [97] During the middle 670s Wilfrid acted as middleman in the negotiations to return a Merovingian prince, Dagobert II, from his exile in Ireland to Gaul. Among the council's resolutions was one postponing a decision on the creation of new dioceses, which affected Wilfrid later. [21][o] Wilfrid was succeeded at Hexham by Acca of Hexham, a protégé who had accompanied him to Rome in 703. Durante la visita dell'arcivescovo di Canterbury, Teodoro di Tarso, nel 669, quest'ultimo volle regolarizzare la questione del seggio vescovile di York, sostenendo che l'elezione di Chad di Mercia non fosse valida, inducendo il vescovo in carica a ritirarsi e restituendo la carica all'esule Vilfrido. [110], Wilfrid was criticised for dressing his household and servants in clothing fit for royalty.