Wine was consecrated the first bishop of Winchester in 660 and possibly translated to Dorchester around 663.
[2] Bede tells us that Wine was ordained bishop in the Frankish kingdom[3] and that King Cenwalh of Wessex installed him after disagreements with the previous Frankish bishop, Agilbert.
[3] Wine too was forced to leave after a few years and took refuge with Wulfhere, king of Mercia, who installed him in London,[4] after a payment to Wulfhere.
This would have resulted in his being disciplined, along with Chad, by Theodore of Tarsus, the new archbishop of Canterbury, who arrived in 669.
[7] Since Bede does not list him among the miscreants at this point, it is possible he had died by this date.