The historian James Fraser argues that Wilfrid may not have been allowed to return to Northumbria and instead went into exile at the Mercian court, but most historians have argued that Wilfrid was at Ripon.

After the death of Ecgfrith in 685, Archbishop Theodore arranged a reconciliation between Wilfrid and Aldfrith, Ecgfrith's successor, but in 692 Aldfrith and Wilfrid fell out and Wilfrid went into exile in Mercia.

Indeed, he was known by his followers as ' El Wahid ' ( the Only One ), and when the British poet and explorer Wilfrid Scawen Blunt went to meet him, he found the entrance of Orabi's house was blocked with supplicants.

In 704, after the 70 year-old Saint Wilfrid of York was expelled ( after several other expulsions ) from his episcopal see, he went to Rome and pleaded his case " before the apostolic Pope John ", three years into the Greek's pontificate.

He subsequently went to study at Tours, where he probably befriended Peter of Blois, a medieval poet and diplomat who dedicated a later work on St Wilfrid to Geoffrey.

A number of non-speaking parts were filled by actors who later went on to achieve a modicum of fame, including Wilfrid Brambell, Dora Bryan, Geoffrey Keen, Noel Purcell, and Guy Rolfe.

After his election, Berhtwald went to Gaul for consecration and then presided over two councils that attempted to settle the Wilfrid issue, finally succeeding at the second council in 705.

The South Saxons were first evangelised extensively under Anglian influence ; Aethelwalh of Sussex was converted by Wulfhere, King of Mercia, and allowed Wilfrid, Archbishop of York, to evangelise his people beginning in 681.

* Wilfrid, Bishop of Northumbria, is expelled to Mercia.

During the years 667 – 9, while Wilfrid was at Ripon, Wulfhere frequently invited him to come to Mercia when there was need of the services of a bishop.

Nonetheless, the synod exonerated Wilfrid, restored him to his see, which he occupied until his death in 709, and sent him back to England with letters for King Æthelred of Mercia for papal mandates to be implemented.

Wilfrid spent his exile in Mercia, where he enjoyed the staunch support of King Æthelred.

A council was convened by King Aldfrith of Northumbria at Austerfield in 702, which was then on the boundary between the two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Northumbria and Mercia, attended by Berhtwald, Archbishop of Canterbury to decide on whether Saint Wilfrid should become Archbishop of York.

The historian Nicholas Brooks points out that although Bede may have indeed misread Vitalian's letter, Oswiu had other reasons for involving himself in Deusdedit's replacement, not least of which was a concern that the exiled Northumbrian bishop Wilfrid, who was in Kent and Mercia at the time, not be selected as the new archbishop.

Wilfrid spent the next few years in Selsey, where he founded an episcopal see and converted the pagan inhabitants of the Kingdom of Sussex to Christianity.

Wilfrid studied at Lindisfarne for a few years before going to the Kentish king's court at Canterbury in 652, where he stayed with relatives of Queen Eanflæd.

According to Wilfrid's later biographer, Stephen of Ripon, Wilfred left Biscop's company at Lyon, where Wilfrid stayed under the patronage of Annemund, the archbishop.

Wilfrid introduced the Rule of Saint Benedict into Ripon, claiming that he was the first person in England to make a monastery follow it, but this claim rests on the Vita Sancti Wilfrithi and does not say where Wilfrid became knowledgeable about the Rule, nor exactly what form of the Rule was being referred to.

A few important Anglian centres in Bernicia bear names of British origin or are known by British names elsewhere: Bamburgh is called Din Guaire in the Historia Brittonum ; Dunbar ( where Saint Wilfrid was once imprisoned ) represents Dinbaer ; and the name of Coldingham is given by Bede as Coludi urbs (" town of Colud "), where Colud seems to represent the British form, possibly for the hill-fort of St Abb's Head.

This mirrored the situation in Ottawa, where the arrival of Wilfrid Laurier in the 1896 federal election marked the beginning of Liberal Party of Canada dominance at the federal level.

All that Stonehaven would offer was Nottingham South, where the Conservative Association might be persuaded to support Jowitt should the sitting National Labour member George Wilfrid Holford Knight stand down.

Eadie began softball at age 5, and has attended Wilfrid Laurier University, where she played three seasons as their starting goalie and won numerous personal accolades, as well as leading her team to a national championship in 2005.

Oswald re-established Christianity in the kingdom and assigned a bishopric at Hexham, where Wilfrid erected a famous early English church.

Middleton studied at Clare College, Cambridge and at the University of York, where his PhD was supervised by Wilfrid Mellers.

The stadium was later sold by the City of Waterloo to Wilfrid Laurier University in 1992, where it is now the home of the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks.

Millikan earned her PhD from Yale University where she studied under Wilfrid Sellars.

Under pressure from pro-imperial public opinion, Sir Wilfrid Laurier raised the Union Flag over Parliament, where it remained until the re-emergence of the Red Ensign in the 1920s.

He then served as Chairman of the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada, where he began to develop a reputation as a Christian apologist.

Æthelwealh gave Wilfrid land in Selsey where he founded Selsey Abbey.

Wilfrid was a protégé of Agilbert, who later helped in Wilfrid's consecration as a bishop.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier, then the Prime Minister of Canada, helped secure the important site for the construction, and the hotel was eventually named in his honour.

In so doing, Roblin helped to defeat Sir Wilfrid Laurier and put Robert Borden in power.

Wilfrid Blunt was vital in the relay of this information to the British empire as it helped them determine their course of action.

Eventually, he returned to Quebec, and helped a Conservative candidate, Désiré-Olivier Bourbeau defeat a Liberal cabinet minister named Wilfrid Laurier ( the future Prime Minister ).

In 664 Wilfrid acted as spokesman for the Roman " party " at the Council of Whitby, and became famous for his speech advocating that the Roman method for calculating the date of Easter should be adopted.

The accusation occurred in front of the bishop of Hexham of the time, Wilfrid, who was present at a feast when some drunken monks made the accusation.

Wilfrid had been present at the exhumation of her body in 695, and Bede questioned the bishop about the exact circumstances of the body and asked for more details of her life, as Wilfrid had been her advisor.

Wilfrid ( originally spelled Wilfrith ; c. 633 – c. 709 ) was an English bishop and saint.

One is that Alhfrith wished the seat to be at York, another is that Wilfrid was bishop only in Deira, a third supposes that Wilfrid was never bishop at York and that his diocese was only part of Deira.

Wilfrid delayed his return from Gaul, only to find on his arrival back in Northumbria that Ceadda had been installed as bishop in his place.

While at York, Wilfrid was considered the " bishop of the Northumbrian peoples "; Bede records that Wilfrid's diocese was contiguous with the area ruled by Oswiu.

Wilfrid may also have sought to exercise some ecclesiastical functions in the Pictish kingdom, as he is accorded the title " bishop of the Northumbrians and the Picts " in 669.

Æthelred made Wilfrid bishop of the Middle Angles, and supported him at the Council of Austerfield in about 702, when Wilfrid argued his case before an assembly of bishops led by Archbishop Berhtwald of Canterbury.

Stephen was asked to write the Life by Acca, one of Wilfrid ’ s followers who later became a bishop and succeeded Wilfrid in the See of Hexham.

As a result of his lengthy dispute with Thurstan, William travelled to Rome more frequently than any bishop before him except for Wilfrid in the 7th century.

This step possibly led to Ecgfrith's long quarrel with Wilfrid bishop of York.

Wilfrid met with his own teacher and patron, Agilbert, a spokesman for the Roman side at Whitby, who had been made bishop of Paris.

It is unclear whether Oswiu changed his mind about Wilfrid, or whether he despaired of his return, or whether he never really intended him to become bishop but used this opportunity to get him out of the country.

It is quite clear that Oswiu intended Chad to be bishop over the entire Northumbrian people, overriding the claims of both Wilfrid and Eata.

Chad retired gracefully and returned to his post as abbot of Lastingham, leaving Wilfrid as bishop of the Northumbrians at York.

Two of Cædwalla's charters were grants of land to Wilfrid, and there is also subsequent evidence that Cædwalla worked with Wilfrid and Eorcenwald, a bishop of the East Saxons, to establish an ecclesiastical infrastructure for Sussex.