John Wycliffe

== Legacy ==
[[File:Wycliffecollege toronto chapel1.jpg|thumb|A stained glass window in [[Wycliffe College]] Chapel, Toronto]]

Wycliffe was instrumental in the development of a translation of the Bible in English, thus making it accessible to English speakers with poor Latin, though whether he himself translated the Bible, in part or whole, or merely played a part in motivating its translation indirectly through his revival of Oxford biblical studies, is a matter of debate.

His theology also had a strong influence on [[Jan Hus]].<ref name="Budd">{{ cite web |last=Buddensieg |first=Rudolf |date=26 October 1884 |title=John Wiclif, patriot & reformer; life and writings |url=http://archive.org/details/johnwiclifpatrio00budd |access-date=26 October 2019 |publisher=London : T. Fisher Unwin |via=Internet Archive }}</ref> Hus' ''De Ecclesia'' summarised Wycliffe's work of the same name, with additional material from Wycliffe's ''De potentate papae''. See also [[Jan Hus#Writings of Hus and Wycliffe|Writings of Hus and Wycliffe]].

Several institutions are named after him:

* [[Wycliffe Global Alliance]], an alliance of organisations with the common objective of translating the Bible for every language group that needs it.
* [[Wycliffe Hall, Oxford]], one of the Church of England's designated Evangelical [[Seminary|theological colleges]].
* [[Wycliffe College, Toronto]], a graduate theological school federated with the University of Toronto.
* [[Wycliffe College, Gloucestershire]], an English independent, private day and boarding school.

Wycliffe is [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|honoured]] with a [[Commemoration (Anglicanism)|commemoration]] in the [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|Church of England]] on 31 December,<ref>{{ cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=10 April 2021|website=The Church of England }}</ref> and in the [[Anglican Church of Canada]].<ref>{{citation |title=The Prayer Book online |contribution=57. The Calendar, ix |contribution-url=http://prayerbook.ca/the-prayer-book-online/57-the-calendar-ix |place=[[Canada|CA]] |access-date=26 November 2012 |archive-date=4 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104172841/http://prayerbook.ca/the-prayer-book-online/57-the-calendar-ix |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Wycliffe and its variants are popular [[Wycliffe (name)#People with the given nam|given names]], presumably starting in some Protestant communities. For example, Haitian rapper and musician [[Wyclef Jean]].

In the centre of Lutterworth, a [[Listed building|Grade II-listed]] memorial obelisk to Wycliffe was erected in June 1897<ref>{{NHLE|num=1209165|desc=Wycliffe Memorial, Bitteswell Road, Lutterworth, Leicestershire|grade=II|access-date=29 March 2024}}</ref> on a site behind which the Wycliffe Memorial Methodist Church was built a few years later for the town's Wesleyan Methodist congregation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk/content/chapels/leicestershire/lutterworth_bitteswell_road_wycliffe_memorial_wesleyan_methodist_chapel_leicestershire|title=Lutterworth, Bitteswell Road, Wycliffe Memorial Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Leicestershire|date=24 June 2018|publisher=Methodist Heritage and the [[Methodist Church of Great Britain]]|access-date=29 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529091353/https://www.mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk/content/chapels/leicestershire/lutterworth_bitteswell_road_wycliffe_memorial_wesleyan_methodist_chapel_leicestershire|archive-date=29 May 2022|url-status=live|work=My Wesleyan Methodists website}}</ref>