Walter de la Wyle was

Bishop of Salisbury The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers much of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset. The see is in the City of Salisbury where the bishop's seat ...

from 1263 to 1271, and the founder of St. Edmund's College, Salisbury.

Biography

De la Wyle began his career as a

chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...

to Robert de Bingham, which led to his appointment as warden of a bridge over the Avon connected with St. John's Hospital. Eventually Walter de la Wyle was elected succentor of Salisbury,British History Online: Bishops of Salisbury
accessed on 30 October 2007 one of the chief officers of a

cathedral chapter According to both Catholic and Anglican canon law, a cathedral chapter is a college of clerics ( chapter) formed to advise a bishop and, in the case of a vacancy of the episcopal see in some countries, to govern the diocese during the vacancy. In ...

, with responsibility for overseeing religious ritual in cathedral worship services. This was an especially prestigious position in Salisbury since the

Sarum Rite The Use of Sarum (or Use of Salisbury, also known as the Sarum Rite) is the Latin liturgical rite developed at Salisbury Cathedral and used from the late eleventh century until the English Reformation. It is largely identical to the Roman rite, ...

, the order of service used at Salisbury Cathedral, was quickly becoming the most popular order of service in England. It was from the office of Succentor that Walter de la Wyle was elevated to the office of bishop on 29 January 1263 as the successor to Bishop

Giles of Bridport Giles of Bridport was a medieval Bishop of Salisbury. Giles was archdeacon of Berkshire in the diocese of Salisbury as well as Dean of Wells

. He was consecrated on 27 May 1263.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 270 In 1269, he founded St Edmund's college, and at or around the same time a new parish of St. Edmund's was created to serve the growing population of Salisbury. De la Wyle died on 3 or 4 January 1271.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wyle, Walter De La Bishops of Salisbury 13th-century English Roman Catholic bishops 1271 deaths Year of birth unknown