Repington, (REPYNGDON) PHILIP, Cardinal priest of the title of SS. Nereus and Achilleus, Bishop of Lincoln (1404-1419); died early in 1424. The place and date of his birth are uncertain, but he was educated at Broadgates Hall, Oxford, and became an Augustinian canon of St. Mary de pre, Leicester. In his early life he was infected with Wyclifism, and was suspended at the Council of Blackfriars, June 12, 1382, being excommunicated at Canterbury on July 1. Recanting his heretical views, he was restored to the communion of the Church during the autumn of the same year. In 1394 he became abbot of his monastery, and was Chancellor of the University of Oxford for the years 1397, 1400, 1401 and 1402. On the accession of Henry IV he became confessor and chaplain to the king, with whom he lived in great intimacy, and on November 19, 1404, he was appointed Bishop of Lincoln by papal provision, being consecrated on March 29 following. Pope Gregory XII created him a cardinal in September, 1408, but as the Council of Pisa on June 5, 1409, deposed Gregory and annulled all his acts since May, 1408.Repington’s cardinalate was invalidated until the Council of Constance, when he was reinstated. In 1419 Cardinal Repington resigned his bishopric, probably for court reasons, and this resignation was accepted by the pope on November 21. The date of his death is unknown, but it occurred before August 1, 1424, when his will was proved. His “Sermons on the Gospels” are extant in several MSS. in Oxford, Cambridge, and British Museum.
EDWIN BURTON