Wiley, Allen, D.D., a Jlethodist Episcopal divine, was born in Frederick County, Ya., Jan. 15, 1789. He re- moved to Indiana with his parents in 1804 ; was brought into the Church under the ministry of Rev. Moses Crume in 1810; licensed to exhort Sept. 10, 1811, and to preach July 10, 1813, and was admitted on trial in the Ohio Conference in 1817. "The commencement of his itin- erancy was the beginning of a career of great and per- manent usefulness." Eleven years he spent in travel- ling extensive circuits ; for fourteen years he acted as presiding elder, and for five j'ears he was stationed in the principal large towns. He was chosen delegate to each General Conference from 1832 to 1844. He died at Vevay, Ind., July 23, 1848. Dr. Wiley was a man of God, might}' in the Scriptures, able and successful as a minister. For a number of years he read the Scriptures in the Hebrew, Latin, and Greek languages. " He was one of the active founders and patrons of the Indiana Asbury University, and held for many years the position of trustee. He wrote for the Western Christian Advo- cate a number of articles on 'Ministerial Character and Duties,' which were subsequently collected and pub- lished in a separate work, and are now contained in the account of his IJfe and Times, written by Dr. F. C. Hol- liday." See Minutes of Annual Conferences, iv, 295; Simpson, Cyclop, of Methodism, s. v. ; Sprague, Annals of the A mer. Pulpit, vii, 509. (J. L. S.)
"Wiley, Charles, D.D., a Pre.sbyferian minister, was born at Flatbush, L. I., Maj' 30, 1810. He was the second son of Charles Wiley, bookseller and pub- lisher in New York city. After the usual school prep- aration, he entered Columbia College in 1825, and re- mained as a student there until the death of his father, in 1826. He then entered the law-office of Griffen aud Strong, a well-known law firm in Wall Street, and pur- sued the study of the law with ardor and much promise of success. During the religious revival of 1828-29 he joined Dr. Joel Parker's Church, and resolved to become a minister of the Gospel. In 1831 he entered Prince- ton College, and in 1832 went to the Theological Sem- inar}- at Auburn, N. Y., graduating in 1835 after a full course of three years. He became a resident licen- tiate there, and after spending a short time at New Ha-
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ven, Conn., was in 1837 ordained and installed as pastor of the Congregational Cluirch at Northampton, Mass., where he remained eight years. In 18i5 he was in- stalled over the Keformed Dutch Church at Utica, N. Y., •where he remained until 1855. In that year he was appointed president of Jlilwaukee University, and held that position for several years ; but the financial crisis of 1857 made it impossible for that institution to sustain competition with others earlier in the field, and the ef- fort to build it up was discontinued. In 1858 he sup- plied the Presbyterian Church at Lafayette, Ind., and was rector of the high-school there. In 1859 he supplied the Congregational Church at Birmingham, Conn. In 1860 he was settled over the Reformed Dutch Church at Geneva, N. Y., where he preached until 1866, when he removed to Hackensack, N. J., and engaged in teach- ing a private school. In 1871 he removed to Orange, and up to the period of his fatal illness was engaged in that region in conducting a private school, and in edit- ing some text-books of Virgil and Ciesar for school use. Dr. Wilev was a fine classical scholar. His death oc- curred Dec. 21, 1878, at East Orange, N. J. (W. P. S.) "Wilfrid (WiLFEUDEit), Saint, is the name of four English bishops.
1. Bishop OF York (which was no longer an archbish- opric after the death of Paulinus; see Fuller, Church Hist, of Britain, i, 217). This celebrated man was born of noble parents in Northumberland, in A.D. 634. Hav- ing lost his mother in his fourteenth year, he entered a Scottish convent on the island of Lindisfarne, but after- wards resolved to study the Church and monasticism at Rome. He went thither by way of Canterbury and Lj'ons, and arrived in 651. From G55 to 658 he was at Lyons, and there received the tonsure at the hands of his friend, the archbishop Dallin. He returned to Eng- land, and gained the favor of Oswy, king of Northum- berland, being made tutor to the prince Alchfrid {GGi) and receiving the abbey of Inrhypum (Ripon). At this time a synod was assembled at Streneshale (Whitby, in Yorkshire) to discuss the Easter and the tonsure con- troversies, and Wilfrid succeeded in determining it to approve the usages of Rome, in consequence of which he was appointed in 665 to the then vacant see of York, and sent to archbishop Agilbert of Paris for consecration. During his absence, Ceadda ( St. Chad ) was ordained bishop of York at Canterbury, and Wilfrid therefore re- tired to his monastery of Ripon until archbishop Theo- dore transferred Ceadda to Mercia (Lichfield) and re- stored York to Wilfrid, after which he exercised juris- diction over the whole of Northumberland. He lost the royal favor, however, in 673, by assisting queen Ethel- rida to take the veil, and he was thereupon deposed and his diocese divided into three parts. He appealed to the pope, and started for Rome to plead his own cause in A.D. 678 ; and being driven out of his course by a storm, he carried the Gospel to the Frisians, converted many, and baptized their king, Aldegils. On his arri- val at Rome, pope Agatho restored him to his bishopric, but directed that the more distant parts of his see should be erected into separate dioceses. King Egfrid threw him into prison, however, on hi» return to England, re- gardless of the justification of his cause pronounced by the pope; and he was eventually obliged to seek an asv- lum among the heathen people of Sussex. This ban- ishment was utilized, however, for successful missionary labors. King Edilwalch received baptism, and evangel- ists were sent to the Isle of Victa (Wight), who labored with gratifying success. In 686, Alchfrid, Wilfrid's for- mer pupil, having obtained the crown, the exiled bishop was recalled, but again deposed in 692 on a charge of disobedience to the authority of Canterbury. He once more appealed to the pope from his banishment in Mer- cia, and at the age of seventy years undertook a journey to Rome that he might obtain justice (703 or 701). The conclave decided that Wilfrid's opponents were base ca- lumniators, and instructed the king to restore him to his see. While returning through Gaul, Wilfrid fell I