Short answers, pulled from the story.
John Wycliffe was born in the village of Hipswell near Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, during the mid-1320s. The exact year of his birth remains a subject of historical debate among scholars.
John Wycliffe was summoned before William Courtenay, the Bishop of London, to a convocation at St Paul's Cathedral to face charges regarding his ideas on lordship and church wealth. John of Gaunt intervened with armed supporters to save Wycliffe from immediate condemnation.
The Pope Gregory XI sent five copies of a bull against John Wycliffe on the 22nd of May 1377 to denounce 18 theses drawn from De Civili dominio as erroneous and dangerous to Church and State. This action followed Wycliffe's arguments that the Church had fallen into sin and should give up all its property.
The Earthquake Synod resulted in ten of John Wycliffe's propositions being declared heretical and fourteen being declared erroneous. The assembly also forbade the holding of these opinions or the advancement of them in sermons or academic discussions.
John Wycliffe defined the Church as the totality of those who are predestined to blessedness, creating an invisible church of the elect made up of those predestined to be saved. He maintained that no one who is eternally lost has part in this universal Church and that there is no salvation outside of it.
The Wycliffe Bible was revised perhaps by John Wycliffe's younger contemporary John Purvey in 1388, known as the Late Version. Over 200 manuscripts of the Wycliffe Bible, complete or partial, exist today and the work remains a significant historical document.