Non-Diocesan Anglican Bishops - Anglican Bishops in Mission, Bishop at Lambeth, Thomas Nettleship Staley, Sandy Millar (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anglican Bishops in Mission, Bishop at Lambeth, Thomas Nettleship Staley, Sandy Millar, Archibald Ronald Mcdonald Gordon, Peter Selby, Provincial Episcopal Visitor, Stuart Snell, Samuel David Ferguson, Horatio Southgate, Frank Pilkington Sargeant. Excerpt: Right Rev. Thomas Nettleship Staley MA, DD (18231898) was a British priest of the Church of England and the first Anglican Bishop of the Church of Hawaii. Thomas Nettleship Staley was born 17 January 1823 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. His father was minister William Staley. Staley entered Queens' College, Cambridge in 1840, earned his BA in 1844, and became a Fellow in 1847 after earning his MA. He was Tutor at St. Mark's College, Chelsea 1844-48 and Headmaster of the St. Mark's Practising School 1848-50 (whilst still lecturing at St. Mark's College) and then Principal of the Collegiate School, Wandsworth. He married Catherine Workman Shirley Staley in September 1850. He was selected by Archbishop of Canterbury John B. Sumner and consecrated 15 December 1861, at the suggestion of Samuel Wilberforce and Queen Victoria, as the Church's first bishop of the Kingdom of Hawaii. He and his wife departed 17 August 1862 arrived in Honolulu in October, 1862, a few weeks after the death of Albert, Prince of Hawaii, the only son of King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma Kaleleonlani Naea. Cornerstone of St. Andrew's Cathedral laid in 1867His presence provoked conflict with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions because they considered him a symbol of ritualism. The fact that he was a Bishop also bothered the Calvinists who disliked any kind of religious hierarchy. In a letter to Rufus Anderson of the American Board, British missionary William Ellis (who had visited the Hawaiian island... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=732819