WILEY, LOUIS newspaper manager, born at Hornell, N.Y., May 31, 1869. He received a private school educa tion at Mt. Sterling, Ky. In 1887 he joined the staff of the Rochester (N.Y.) Post-Express as a reporter and in 1893 was appointed business manager. He was also editor and publisher of The Tiding§ at Rochester, 1887-95. In 1896 he became associated with The New York Times and was the business manager of that newspaper since 1906. He was a member of the executive com mittee of the League of Nations Non-Partisan Association, presi dent of the Steuben County Society, vice-president of the 42nd Street Property Owners' and Merchants' Association, the Broad way Association and the Lafayette Memorial ; director of the Fed erated General Relief Committee, Society of the Genesee, Munici pal Art Society, Authors' League Fund, and Kentucky Society. WILFRID (c. 634-709), English archbishop, born in North umbria. He attracted the notice of the queen, Eanfled, who placed him in care of an old noble, Cudda, then a monk at Lindisfarne. Later on Eanfled enabled him to visit Rome in the company of Benedict Biscop. On leaving Rome he spent three years with Annemund, archbishop of Lyons. After the murder of his patron he returned to England, where he received a monastery at Ripon, and then took priest's orders.
He was probably already regarded as the leading exponent of the Roman discipline in England when his speech at the council of Whitby determined the overthrow of the Celtic party (664). About a year later he was consecrated to the see of York, not, however, in England, where perhaps he could not find the fitting number of orthodox prelates, but at Compiegne. On his return journey he narrowly escaped the pagan wreckers of Sussex, and reached England to find Ceadda (St. Chad) installed in his see.
The rest of his life is largely a record of wandering and mis fortune. For three years (665-668) he ruled his monastery at Ripon in peace, though acting as bishop in Mercia and Kent during vacancies in sees there. On Archbishop Theodore's arrival (668) he was restored to his see, and spent in it nine years of ceaseless activity, especially in building churches, only to be driven out through the anger of King Ecgfrith's queen (677).
After Ecgfrith's death (May 20, 685) Wilfrid was restored to York (much circumscribed), and Ripon (686-687). He was once more driven out in 691-692, and spent seven years in Mercia. A great council of the English Church held in Northumbria excommunicated him in 702. He again appealed to Rome in person, and obtained another decision in his favour (703-704). He died at Oundle in Northamptonshire as he was going on a visit to Ceolred, king of Mercia (709). He was buried at Ripon.
Wilfrid's is a memorable name in English history, not only because of the large part he played in supplanting the Celtic discipline and in establishing a precedent of appeal to papal authority, but also by reason of his services to architecture and learning. At York he renewed Paulinus's old church, roofing it with lead and furnishing it with glass windows ; at Ripon he built an entirely new basilica with columns and porches ; at Hexham in honour of St. Andrew he reared a still nobler church, over which Eddius grows eloquent. In the early days of his bishopric he used to travel about his diocese attended by a little troop of skilled masons. He seems to have also reformed the method of conducting the divine services by the aid of his skilled chanters, Aedde and Aeona, and to have established or renewed the rule of St. Benedict in the monasteries. On each visit to Rome it was his delight to collect relics for his native land; and to his favourite basilica at Ripon he gave a bookcase wrought in gold and precious stones, besides a splendid copy of the Gospels.
Wilfrid's life was written shortly after his death by Eddius at the request of Acca, his successor at Hexham, and Tatbert, abbot of Ripon-both intimate friends of the great bishop. Other lives were written by Frithegode in the loth, by Folcard in the iith, and by Eadmer early in the 12th century. See also Bede's Hist. Eccl. v. 19, iii. 25, iv. 13, etc. All the lives are printed in J. Raine's Historians of the Church of York, vol. i. "Rolls" series.