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Home Dictionary Name: bishopConfirmation of Bishop
Confirmation of Bishop, the ratification by the arch-bishop of the election of a bishop by dean and chapter under the king's letter missive prior to the consecration of the bishop by the archbishop, as directed (see CONGE D'ESLIRE) by 25 Hen. 8, c. 20. It was undecided, from1848 to 1902, whether this ceremony be ministerial or judicial, i.e., whether the archbishop can refuse to confirm. See Queen v. Archbishop of Canterbury, (1848) 11 QB 483, in which the Court of four judges was equally divided in discharging a rule for a mandamus to hear objections, on the ground of heterodoxy, to the confirmation of Dr. Hampden, as Bishop of Hereford. Since then objection has been many times taken to a confirmation:-to that of Dr. Prince Lee as Bishop of Manchester, in 1848; to that of Dr. Temple as Bishop of Exeter, in 1869; to that of Dr Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1896; to that of Dr. Creighton as Bishop of London, in 1897; to that of Dr. Ingram as Bishop of London, in 1901; and to th...
Bishop
Bishop [fr. 'plokopoV, Gk. Biscop, Sax.], an overseer or superintendent. The chief of the clergy in his diocese or jurisdiction in England, Wales, or Ireland, and the archbishop's suffragan or assistant. A bishop is elected by the king's cong' d' 'lire, or license to elect the person named by the king, accompanied, by virtue of 25 Hen. 8, c. 20, by a letter-missive, addressed to the dean and chapter; and if they fail to make election in twelve days, the king, by letters-patent, may nominate whom he pleases. A bishop is said to be installed, and there are four things necessary to his complete title: (1) election, which resembles the presentation of a clerk to an ecclesiastical benefice; (2) confirmation, which cannot be opposed on doctrinal grounds: see Reg. v. Archbishop of Canterbury, 1902 KB 503, under title CONFIRMATION OF BISHOPS; (3) consecration, similar to institution; (4) installation, answering to induction. The bishop are the lords spiritual in Parliament: see HOUSE OF LORDS....
Chancellor of a Diocese, or of a Bishop
Chancellor of a Diocese, or of a Bishop, a law officer, appointed to hold the Bishop's Court in his diocese, and to adjudicate upon matters of ecclesiastical law. He is the vicar-general of the bishop, and by Canon 127 must be at least 26 years old, must be learned in the Civil and Ecclesiastical Laws, must be at least a Master of Arts or Bachelor of Law, and 'reasonably well practised in the course thereof, as likewise well affected, and zealous bent to religion, touching whose life and manners no evil example is had.' By the same canon, he must take the Oath of Supremacy and subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (see that title)....
Calcutta, Bishop of
Calcutta, Bishop of, the metropolitan bishop of India, 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 85, s. 94; and see 53 Geo. 3, c. 155, s. 49; 34 & 35 Vict. c. 62, and Vict. c. 13. These have been replaced, see the Government of India Act, 1915 (c. 61), ss. 115 et seq., and the Indian Church Act, 1927 (c. 40), which defines as the occupant for the time being of the see of Calcutta, whether or not that See is constituted an Archiepiscopal See....
Lay investitute of Bishops
Lay investitute of Bishops, putting a bishop into possession of the temporalities belonging to his bishopric....
Tulchan Bishops
Tulchan Bishops, a name derisively applied to the persons appointed as titular bishops to the Scottish sees immediately after the Reformation, in whose names the revenues of the sees were drawn by the lay barons who had impropriated them, Ogilvie's Imp. Dict....
Indian Bishops
Indian Bishops. See COLONIAL CLERGY and the Government of India Act, 1915, ss. 115 to 123....
Bishop stool
A bishops seat or see...
Bishops length
A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches The half bishop measures 45 by 56...
Church Discipline Act (English)
Church Discipline Act (English), 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 86) (repealing 1 Hen. 7, c. 4), under which 'it shall be lawful for' the bishop of the diocese (but not obligatory on him: see Julius v. Bishop of Oxford, (1880) 5 App Cas 214) on the application of any party complaining to proceed against any clerk in holy orders 'charged with offence against the laws ecclesiastical or concerning whom there may exist scandal or offence against the said laws' (whether concerning doctrine, see Voysey v. Noble, (1870) LR 3 PC 357; Bishop of St. Albans v. Fillingham, 1906 p. 163), ritual or moral misconduct), first by inquiry before commissioners nominated by the bishop, and then if the commissioners report that there is a prima facie case against him, by inquiry before the bishop with assessors, with an ultimate appeal to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Bishop of Lincoln v. Wakefield, 1921 AC 813. The Act is repealed and superseded as to offences against morality by the Clergy Discipline ...
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