[2] Wylde was educated in England at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, and University College, Oxford.
[4] Wylde trained for ordination at Cuddesdon, and was ordained deacon in 1906 and priest in 1907.
[4] His first post was as curate at St Simon Zelotes, Bethnal Green[5] after which he was vicar of the parish until 1921.
Emigrating to Australia, he was a member of the Brotherhood of the Good Shepherd, a period he considered the happiest of his ministry.
[4] In 1942 a parish within his diocese led by the Rev T. C. Hammond[7] brought an action against him for introducing The Red Book[8] a perceived heretical text into the diocese's liturgy.