Botwine of Ripon

Saint Botwine of Ripon was a priest and then abbot of the monastery at Ripon in Northumbria, in England, in the eighth century. The Anglo-⁠Saxon Chronicle records his death in the 780s, probably in 786. His successor was Ealdberht, elected and consecrated after him, and Ealdberht was followed by Sicgred.

A writer of about the year 1000, Byrhtferth of Ramsey, relates that Saint Oswald, Archbishop of York, found Botwine's relics at Ripon and placed them in a shrine together with the relics of Saint Wilfrid and other saints of Ripon; a modern scholar, however, finds the account problematic on other points. In the twelfth century Peterborough Abbey also held part of his relics. Botwine is a saint of the undivided Church, venerated at Ripon and Peterborough.