What is Wine (bishop)?
{{Infobox Christian leader | type = bishop | name = Wine | image = | religion = Catholic | diocese = London | title = Bishop of London | appointed = 666 | consecration = 660 | ended = before 672 | predecessor = [[Cedd]] | successor =[[Erkenwald]] | ordination = | other_post = Bishop of Winchester | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = 671 | death_place = }} '''Wine''' or '''Wini''' (died before 672) was a [[7th century]] Bishop. He was the first Bishop of Winchester. He later became the Bishop of London. == Bishop of Winchester == Wine had been [[:wikt:ordained|ordained]] in [[Gaul]].<ref name=Blair112>Peter Hunter Blair, ''The World of Bede'' (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990). p. 112</ref> In [[Wessex]] King [[Cenwalh of Wessex]] had grown tired of his current bishop, [[Agilbert]], who apparently did not speak the Anglo-Saxon language. Wine did speak Anglo-Saxon and was invited by Cenwalh to come to Wessex.<ref name=Bede154>Bede, ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', trans. Leo Sherley Price, revsd. R. E. Latham (London; New York: Penguin, 1990), p. 154</ref> Cenwalh built a new church at Winchester; dividing his kingdom into two [[diocese]]s.<ref name=Bede154/> There, Wine was [[:en:wikt:consecrated|consecrated]] the first [[bishop]] of [[Winchester]] in 660.{{efn|Wine was the third bishop in Wessex. [[Birinus]] was the first and Agribert the second.<ref>Bede, ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', trans. Leo Sherley Price, revsd. R. E. Latham (London; New York: Penguin, 1990), p. 223</ref>}}<ref>Mike Ashley, ''The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens'' (New york: Carroll & Graf, 1999), p. 304</ref> Agribert took offense at not being consulted and returned to Gaul.<ref name=Bede154/> King [[Oswiu of Northumbria]] appointed a [[monk]] named Chad to be bishop to the [[Northumbrians]]. He sent Chad to [[Canterbury]] to be consecrated [[Bishop of York]]. On Chad's arrival in [[Kent]]