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Henry Tilson
Henry Tilson ( bapt. 1577 – 1655), Bishop of Elphin, was an Irish Anglican churchman. Life The son of Henry Tilson, he was born in England at Midgley, in Yorkshire. He graduated BA at Balliol College, Oxford in 1597, became a fellow of University College in 1599, and graduated MA 1601. He spent periods as rector of Stanmer, Sussex, and vicar of Rochdale in Lancashire. Tilson went to Ireland as chaplain to Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, the Lord Deputy, and received preferment. He was Dean of Christ Church, Dublin from 1634 to 1639; Archdeacon of Connor from 1635 until 1639;" Fasti Ecclesle Hibernicae: The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland. Vol III p257" Cotton, H: Dublin: Hodges and Smith, 1849 and Bishop of Elphin from his consecration on 23 September 1639 for the rest of his life. In 1645 Tilson left Ireland, to avoid the insurgency that followed the 1641 Irish Rebellion. He went to Soothill Hall, in Yorkshire, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right Reverend
The Right Reverend (abbreviated The Rt Revd, The Rt Rev'd, The Rt Rev.) is a style (manner of address), style applied to certain religion, religious figures. Overview *In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholicism in the United Kingdom, Catholic Church in Great Britain, it applies to bishops, except that ''The Most Reverend'' is used for archbishops (elsewhere, all Roman Catholic Church, Catholic bishops are styled as ''The Most Reverend''). *In some churches with a Presbyterian heritage, it applies to the current Moderator of the General Assembly, such as **the current Moderator of the United Church of Canada (if the moderator is an ordained minister; laypeople may be elected moderator, but are not styled Right Reverend) **the current Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland **the current Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland **the current Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of East Africa **the current Moderator of Presbyterian Church of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diocese Of Connor (Church Of Ireland)
The Diocese of Connor is in the Province of Armagh of the Church of Ireland. Overview and history Christianity has been present in Connor Diocese for over 1500 years. Tradition holds that St. Patrick herded sheep on Slemish, in the heart of the Diocese, when first brought to Ireland as a slave. Saint Malachy, the great reformer of the Irish church, was consecrated Bishop of Connor in 1124 and remained until his translation to the Archbishopric of Armagh in 1132. The see was originally at Connor, County Antrim, Connor. There is much evidence, from written sources and archaeological material, that Connor was a sizeable, complex settlement in the Early Christian period, probably with monastic and secular elements coexisting. There was no monastic establishment at Connor in the Middle Ages, though there was an Augustinians, Augustinian community at Kells, County Antrim, Kells nearby. When the Church in England broke communion with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archdeacons Of Connor
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that of most clergy and below a bishop. In the High Middle Ages it was the most senior diocesan position below a bishop in the Catholic Church. An archdeacon is often responsible for administration within an archdeaconry, which is the principal subdivision of the diocese. The ''Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church'' has defined an archdeacon as "A cleric having a defined administrative authority delegated to him by the bishop in the whole or part of the diocese.". The office has often been described metaphorically as that of ''oculus episcopi'', the "bishop's eye". Roman Catholic Church In the Latin Catholic Church, the post of archdeacon, originally an ordained deacon (rather than a priest), was once one of great importance as a senior officia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deans Of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Deans may refer to: People * Austen Deans (1915–2011), New Zealand painter and war artist * Colin Deans (born 1955), Scottish rugby union player * Craig Deans (born 1974), Australian football (soccer) player * Diane Deans (born 1958), Canadian politician * Dixie Deans (born 1946), Scottish football player (Celtic) * Ian Deans (1937–2016), Canadian politician * Kathryn Deans, Australian author * Mickey Deans (1934–2003), fifth and last husband of Judy Garland * Ray Deans (born 1966), Scottish football player * Robbie Deans (born 1959), New Zealand rugby coach and former player * Steven Deans (born 1982), ice hockey player * Tommy Deans (1922–2000), Scottish football (soccer) player * More than one Dean Places * Deans, New Jersey * Deans, West Lothian Deans is a small community within the town of Livingston, West Lothian, Livingston in West Lothian, Scotland. Deans is situated in the northern part of Livingston, The western area of Deans was formerly known as Livingston Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1655 Deaths
Events January–March * January 5 – Emperor Go-Sai ascends to the throne of Japan. * January 7 – Pope Innocent X, leader of the Roman Catholic Church and the Papal States, dies after more than 10 years of rule. * February 14 – The Mapuches launch coordinated attacks against the Spanish in Chile, beginning the Mapuche uprising of 1655. * February 16 – Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker. * March 8 – John Casor becomes the first legally recognized slave in what will become the United States, as a court in Northampton County in the Colony of Virginia issues its decision in the Casor lawsuit, the first instance of a judicial determination in the Thirteen Colonies holding that a person who had committed no crime could be held in servitude for life. * March 25 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens. April–June * April 4 – Battle of Porto Farina, Tunis: En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward King (Bishop Of Elphin)
Edward King (died 8 March 1639) was a Church of Ireland Bishop of Elphin from 1611 to 1639. King was an Englishman, a native of Huntingdonshire. His predecessor as bishop of Elphin, John Lynch, greatly impoverished the see by alienating properties and in 1611 resigned, declaring himself a Roman Catholic. During more than a quarter of a century as bishop, King was able to recover Lynch's alienations and much improved the revenue of the diocese. Dod's ''Peerage'' of 1848 says of him that "...his bishopric, which he found the poorest, he left one of the richest in all Ireland". Dod, Charles R., ''The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland'' (1848p. 279/ref> In 1638, King was offered the Archbishopric of Tuam, but "flatly refused". Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Lord Deputy of Ireland, mentions him honourably in a letter to William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, calling him "truly a ''Royal'' bishop". He married firstly Anne Coxsed of Cambridges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Richardson (bishop Of Ardagh)
John Richardson (1580–1654) was an English bishop of the Church of Ireland. He was nominated Bishop of Ardagh on 8 April 1633 and consecrated in September that year. He was also Archdeacon of Derry from 1622 to 1634; and Archdeacon of Connor from 1639 to 1654. He left Ireland before the Rebellion of 1641 and died in London on 11 August 1654. Life He was born near Chester, entered Trinity College, Dublin, graduated M.A., and became a fellow in 1600. In the same year he was selected with James Ussher and another as lay preacher at Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. Richardson's part was to preach on Wednesdays, and explain the prophecies of Isaiah. He later took holy orders, and was created D.D. in 1614. Richardson held many preferments. He was appointed vicar of Granard, in Ardagh, in 1610; rector of Ardsrath, Derry, in 1617; Archdeacon of Derry in 1622 (reappointed in the new charter of 1629); Prebendary of Mullaghbrack at St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh on 14 May 1633; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Moneypenny
Andrew Moneypenny was an Irish Anglican churchman in the seventeenth century. He was appointed Archdeacon of Connor The Archdeacon of Connor is a senior ecclesiastical officer within the Diocese of Connor. The archdeaconry can trace its history from Eustacius Eustacius (died 1241) was a 13th-century Irish Roman Catholic bishop. Previously Archdeacon of Conno ... in 1617 and a prebendary of Down Cathedral in 1620."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p240 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848–1878 References Archdeacons of Connor 17th-century Irish Anglican priests {{Ireland-Anglican-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Margetson
James Margetson (1600 – 26 August 1678) was an English churchman, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh from 1663 till 1678. Life James Margetson was a native of Drighlington in Yorkshire. He was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and returned after ordination to Yorkshire, where he attracted the notice of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, then Lord President of the North, who took him as chaplain to Ireland in 1633. He was made dean of Waterford by patent, 25 May 1635, and in October was presented by the crown to the rectory of Armagh, Cavan. He resigned from Waterford and Armagh in 1637, and in that year became rector of Galloon in Monaghan and dean of Derry. In December 1639 Margetson was made dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin. No new dean of Derry was appointed until after the Restoration. It appears from the correspondence of William Laud and Strafford (as Wentworth now was) intended to restore the almost ruinous cathedral of Christ Church, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randolph Barlow
Randolph Barlow, (''Randulph, Ranulph, Randall or Ralph Barlow''; – 1638) was made Pembroke College fellow at Cambridge University in 1593; attained Master of Arts in 1594; awarded Doctor of Divinity in 1600; took holy orders and later served in the Church of Ireland as the Archbishop of Tuam from 1629 to 1638. Born in around 1572, his first known ecclesiastical appointment was in 1601 as parish priest of Ripton Regis, in 1612 as canon of Kildare Cathedral, and later to the Prebendary of Geashill (1614–17). He was also appointed Archdeacon of Meath in 1612,, ''The Province of Ulster'', p. 128. Dean of Leighlin (1614–18) and Precentor of Ossory (1615–18)., ''The Province of Leinster'', p. 297. He was then appointed the Dean of Christ Church, Dublin in 1618., ''The Province of Leinster'', p. 42. He was nominated the Archbishop of Tuam on 6 February 1629 and consecrated at Drogheda in April 1629., ''The Province of Connaught'', pp. 13–14., ''Handbook of British Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dewsbury
Dewsbury is a minster and market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Calder and on an arm of the Calder and Hebble Navigation waterway. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, after undergoing a period of major growth in the 19th century as a mill town, Dewsbury went through a period of decline. Dewsbury forms part of the Heavy Woollen District of which it is the largest town. According to the 2011 census, Dewsbury had a population of 62,945. History Toponymy The ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 records the name as ''Deusberie'', ''Deusberia'', ''Deusbereia'', or ''Deubire'', literally "Dewi's fort", Dewi being an old Welsh name (equivalent to David) and "bury" coming from the old English word "burh", meaning fort. Other, less supported, theories exist as to the name's origin. For example, that it means "dew hill", from Old English ''d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upper Cumberworth
Upper Cumberworth is a small village in West Yorkshire, England, within the civil parish of Denby Dale and the Diocese of Wakefield. It is between the villages of Denby Dale and Shepley, above the village of Lower Cumberworth. It occupies a rural location, surrounded by fields and woodland but close to Huddersfield, Barnsley, Wakefield and Sheffield by public transport or road. The 2001 Census gave the population of Upper Cumberworth and Lower Cumberworth combined as 1,222. Geography The local woodlands are managed by the Upper Dearne Woodlands Conservation Group, who undertake tasks such as habitat conservation, access management, education and information. Many public footpaths run through the woodlands with information boards about plants and animals. The woodland runs into Birdsedge and contains more than 75 Hairy Northern Wood Ant ( Formica lugubris) nests. Education The village has a small first school, Cumberworth CE (VA) First School. Religious sites The local Saint Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
