Chester (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV Bishop Sumner -- Subdivision of the diocese -- Bishopric of Manchester--James Prince Lee, first Bishop of Manchester --Bishops James Fraser and James Moorhouse--John Graham--William Jacobson--Foundation of Liverpool See --John Charles Ryle, first Bishop--Bishops Stubbs and Jayne--Sunday Schools. Bishop Sumner's administration of the diocese during the long period of twenty-one years (1828-- 1848) was eminently successful, and for the most part uneventful. Whilst he strove firmly and consistently to carry on the plan of reform so ably inaugurated by his predecessor, Bishop Blomfield, his conciliatory manners and strict justice won for him the dutiful respect and willing obedience of his clergy, and checked any tendency to hostility on the part of the Nonconformists. But one most important event specially distinguished this period. The remarkable growth of population and extension of industrial pursuits in the northern portion of the enormous and unwieldy diocese of Chester called for immediate rectification of diocesan arrangements. The Third Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in 1836 dwelt with emphasis on this need, and under the provisions of the Act 6 and 7 William IV. c. 79, the first step was taken in relief in 1836, when the diocese of Ripon was constituted, and all its picturesque and extensive Yorkshire territory severed from the diocese of Chester. Under the same Act, and in furtherance of an Order in Council made August 1847, the whole of Westmoreland, consisting of the deaneries of Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale, was assigned to the see of Carlisle, together with the deanery of Copeland in Cumberland, and that part of Lancashire which lies to the north of Morecambe Bay, viz. the deaneries of Furness and Cartmell. This rectification too...