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LONDON, SATURDAY. JULY 5, 1866. 



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jfJotPS. 



SUrrEAGAN BISHOPS. 



At. the present time, when suffragan bishops 

 are so urgently required to assist the overtasked 

 bishops of England, the following list, taken from 

 my complete, but unpublished " Book of the 

 British Hierarchy," may prove interesting. Well 

 would it be if bishops in bad health, or incapable 

 of efficiently administering their dioceses from 

 their magnitude, were supplied with coadjutors. 

 Churches eminently adapted for being episcopal 

 sees are in every diocese : Westminster for Lon* 

 don, Southwell for Lincoln, St. Germains for 

 Cornwall, Bath for Bath and Wells, Bristol for 

 Gloucester and Bristol, St. Alban's for Rochester, 

 Beverley for York, Middleham for Ripon, Co- 

 ventry for Lichfield, Bury for Norwich, St. 

 Neot's for Ely ; while it woidd be easy to suggest 

 Romsey, Dorchester, Wrexham, Shoreham, Bre- 

 con, Slirewsbury, &c., for the remaining sees. 



By 28 Henry VIIL c. 14. the following suffra- 

 gan sees were proposed to be erected ;■ Cambridge, 

 Hull, Berwick, St. Germains, Thetford, Ipswich, 

 Grantham, Huntingdon, Southampton, Guildford, 

 Leicester, Nottingham, Shrewsbury, Penrith, Mol- 

 ton, Bridgwater, Isle of Wight, Colchester, Lei- 

 cester. The following five were suffragan sees 

 for a time : Taunton, Shaftesbury, Marlborough, 

 Dover, and Bedford. Gloucester, Bristol, Ox- 

 ford, Peterborough, and Chester, were perma- 

 nently erected. Westminster was a bishopric, 

 1540-50. 



In the xxxvth Canon of 1603, suffragans are 

 named as ministering Holy Orders. And in King 

 Charles ll.'s Declaration from Breda, he stated 

 his intention to found suffragans in every diocese. 



Formerly suffrngans were consecrated to serve 

 in the absence of the diocesans on embassies, at 

 court, or attendance on civil affairs. Sometimes 

 they had no titles : they consecrated and recon- 



ciled churches, administered orders and confirma- 

 tion. It appears from Strype, that in the Primate's 

 Hall, they occupied an inferior place at table. 

 An Act of Parliament was passed for consecrating 

 coadjutors in Ireland, 1812, 52 Geo. III. c. 62. 



Gamaliel, Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1160. (Lin- 

 coln.) 

 1043. Siward, Archbishop of Upsula. (Canterbury.) 

 1074. Ralph, consecrated to Orkney by the Archbishop 

 and Bishops of Worcester and Lichfield. (York.) 

 1138. Ralph Howell, Bishop of Orkney. (York.) 

 1191. John, Bishop of Whitherne. (York.) 



Robert Gobson. (York.) 

 1213. Henrv of London, Archbishop of Dublin. (Lich- 

 field.) 

 1213. Thomas, Bishop of Down, 1213—1237. (EIv.) 

 1237. Walter de Blakeley, Bishop of Ossory, 1282—1244. 

 (Lincoln.) 

 William Egmund, an Augustinian ; Bishop of Pis- 

 sinensis. (Lincoln.) 

 1240. John. (Canterbury.) 



1253. Brendan, Bishop of Ardferfc, 1237—1242. (Lich- 

 field.) 

 1259. John de Cheanjj Bishop of Glasgow. (Bath and 



Wells.) 

 1273. Reginald, Bishop of Cloyne, 1265—1274. (Lin- 

 coln.) 

 1292. Peter, Archbishop of Lyons. (Lincoln.) 

 1306. Gilbert, Bishop of Aghadoe. (Worcester.) 

 1312. John, Bishop of Connor. (Canterbury.) 



1323. Roland, Bishop of Angers. (Canterbury.) 



1324. Stephen Segrave, Archbishop of Armagh. (Lich- 



field.) 



1325. Robert le Petit, Chancellor of Exeter. (Exeter.) 

 1331. Peter, Bishop of Corbona, Hungary: died Jan. 19, 



1332 ; buried in the Franciscan Priory, London. 

 (London.) 

 Benedict, Augustine of Norwich, Archbishop of 



Smyrna. (Norwich.) 

 Robert, Bishop of Lamburgh. (Bangor.) 

 1348. Hugh, Archbishop of (Damestensis). (York.) 

 1340. Thomas de Brackenbur}', a Franciscan, Bishop of 

 Leighlin, 1349—1303. (Ely.) 

 John Pascal, Carmelite of Ipswich ; Bishop of Scu- 

 tari; translated to LlandaflT. (Norwich.) 

 Robert Hyntlesliam, Bishop of (Sanascopolis). 

 (Norwich.) 

 1353. William, Bishop of Tusculum. (Bath and Wells.) 

 1355. Thomas Bedingfield, Archbishop of Nazareth. 



(Norwich.) 

 1382. William Bottlesham, Bishop of Bethlehem ; titular 

 of Raab, in Hungary ; translated to Rochester. 

 (Canterbury.) 

 1387. Simon, Bishop of Achonry. (Ely, Winton.) 

 1397. Richard Fitzralph, Archbishop of Armagh. (Lich- 

 field.) 

 1400. Robert Calder, Bishop of Dunkeld. (Winton.) 

 1408. Richard Messing, Bishop of Dromore, 1408-10 ; a 

 Carthusian. (York.) 

 John, Bishop of Dromore, 1410—19: died 1420. 



(York.) 

 John, Rector of Threxton, 1400; Chancellor of 

 Norwich, 1399 ; Archbishop of Smyrna. (Nor- 

 wich.) 

 1411. John Francis, Archbishop of Bourdeanx. (Lincoln.) 

 1416. Oswald, Bishop of Whitiierne. (Durham.) 

 14-22. Joiin, Bishop of Narenta in Dalmatia. [Ste- 



phanensis.] (Ely.) 

 14?2. John Camere, Bishop of Aghadoe. (Worcester.) 

 1424, April 1. Robert, Bishop of Emly. (Norwich.) 



