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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 105 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REPINGTON (or REPYNGDON), PHILIP (d. 1424)  ,
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English bishop and cardinal, was educated at Oxford and became an Augustinian
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canon at Leicester before 1382 . A man of some learning, he came to the front as a defender of the doctrines taught by John Wycliffe; for this he was suspended and after-wards 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 he was made abbot of St Mary de Pre at Leicester, and after the accession of Henry IV. to the English
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throne in 1399 he became
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chaplain and
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confessor to this king, being described as " clericus specialissimus domini regis Henrici." In 1404 he was chosen bishop of Lincoln, and in 1408 Pope Gregory XII. made him a cardinal . He resigned his bishopric in 1419 . Some of Repington's sermons are in
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manuscript at Oxford and at Cambridge .

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