Walter Savage Landor (January 30, 1775 - September 17, 1864), English writer, eldest son of Walter Landor and his wife Elizabeth Savage, was born at Warwick. He was sent to Rugby School, but was removed at the headmaster's request and studied privately with Mr Langley, vicar of Ashbourne. In 1793 he entered Trinity College, Oxford. He adopted republican principles and in 1794 fired a gun at the windows of a Tory for whom he had an aversion. He was rusticated for a year, and, although the authorities were willing to condone the ...

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Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (October 9, 1727 - 16 February 1794) was a French churchman and politician. Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne - Life. He was born at Paris, of a Limousin family traceable back to the 15th century. After a brilliant career as a student, he entered the Church, this being the best way to attain a distinguished position. In 1751 he became a doctor of theology, though there were doubts as to the orthodoxy of his thesis. In 1752 he was appointed grand vicar to ...

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834) was an English poet, critic, and philosopher who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romantic Movement in England and as one of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, as well as his major prose work Biographia Literaria. Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in Ottery St Mary, the son of a vicar. Af ...

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Adam Sedgwick (March 22, 1785 – January 27, 1873) was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale and later the Cambrian period. The latter proposal was based on work which he did on Welsh rock strata. Sedgwick was born in Dent, at that time in Yorkshire, the third child of an Anglican vicar. He was educated at Sedbergh School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Adam Sedgwick - Introduction. In 1817 he took holy orders, and in 1818 he became Woodwa ...

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Albert Nolan OP (born 1934) is a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Dominican order in South Africa. Albert Nolan - Life. Nolan was born in Cape Town, South Africa, as a fourth-generation South African of English descent. Reading the works of Thomas Merton, Nolan became attracted to the idea of religious life (ie. joining a religious order). Eventually he joined the Dominican Order in 1954, and studied in South Africa and Rome, where he received a doctorate. From 1976 to 1984, he was Vicar-Gener ...

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The Vicar of Dibley - Season 1. The first episode was broadcast on the BBC in the UK on 10 November 1994. This season was written by Richard Curtis. "Arrival" "Songs Of Praise" "Community Spirit" "The Window and the Weather" "Election" "Animals" The Vicar of Dibley - Specials. "The Easter Bunny" — First broadcast: 8 April 1996 "The Christmas Lunch Incident" — First broadcast: 25th December 1996 "Engageme ...

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In literary history books the Vicar of Wakefield is often described as a sentimental novel, which displays the belief in the innate goodness of human beings. But it can also be read as a satire on the sentimental novel and its values, as the vicar's values are apparently not compatible with the real "sinful" world. It is only with Sir William Thornhill's help that he can get out of his calamities. Moreover, an analogy can be drawn between Mr. Primrose's suffering and the Book of Job. This i ...

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The show centres around eight main characters, seven of whom sit on the parochial church council (PCC): Geraldine Granger, the female vicar, played by Dawn French, self-described as a bon-vivant. David Horton, Conservative chairman of the PCC, gentleman farmer, pillar of the community and local councillor, played by Gary Waldhorn, and main opponent of the female vicar. In later episodes of the series, Horton comes to fall for Vicar Granger, though she gently lets him down when he tells her. Hug ...

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Dr. Primrose, his wife Deborah and their six children live an idyllic life in a country parish. On the evening of his son George's wedding to Arabella Wilmot, the vicar loses all his money through the bankruptcy of a merchant. The wedding is called off, George is sent away to town and the rest of the family move to a new and more humble parish on the land of Squire Thornhill. On the way, they hear about the dubious reputation of their new landlord. Also, references are made to the squire's uncle Sir William Thornhill, who i ...

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The book consists of 32 chapters which fall into three parts: chapter 1 - 3: beginning chapter 4 - 29: main part chapter 30 - 32: denouement Chapter 17, when Olivia is reported to be fled, can be regarded as the climax as well as an essential turning point of the novel. From chapter 17 onwards it changes from a comical account of 18th century country life into a pathetic melodrama with didactic traits. There are quite a few interpolations of different literary genres, such as poems, histories or sermons, which widen th ...

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Several individuals have been proposed as the model for the Vicar of Bray. Brome argues that the model for the song was the 16th century cleric Simon Alwyn (1540–1588), who lived in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth, but the most frequently sung words refer to 17th century monarchs. Therefore, a later proposed model is Simon Symonds, who was an Independent in the Protectorate, a Church of England believer under Charles II, a Roman Catholic under James II, and a moderate Protestant under William and Mary. The l ...

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In 1875 he accepted the vicarage of Embleton, a parish on the coast of Northumberland, near Dunstanburgh, with an ancient and beautiful church and a fortified parsonage house, and within reach of the fine library in Bamburgh Castle. Here he remained for nearly ten years, acquiring experience of parochial work which later stood him in good stead, taking private pupils, studying and writing, and taking an active part in diocesan business. He also became Rural Dean of Alnwick, Honorary Canon of Newcastle, and examining chaplain to Bishop ...

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On April 11, 1946, Pope Pius XII established the episcopal hierarchy in China, raising all the apostolic vicariates to Dioceses, Hong Kong among them, through the following Apostolic Constitution in Latin, sent to each Vicar Apostolic together with a letter from the Apostolic Internuncius, Mgr. Anthony Riberi in the summer 1946. Since then, the Hong Kong Diocese is directly responsible to the pope. Enrico Valtorta became the first bishop of Hong Kong. In 1969, Bishop Francis Hsu (徐誠斌主教) became the first Chinese bish ...

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William Darwin Fox - Early life. Fox was born and initially raised at Thurleston Grange near Elvaston, Derbyshire and later Osmaston Hall at Osmaston about 2.5 miles (4km) south of Derby. Fox was the son of Samuel Fox (1765-1851) and Ann Darwin (1777-1859).  Ann was the daughter of William Alvey Darwin (1726-1783) and Jane Brown (1746-1835), and niece of Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802). Like his second cousin Charles Darwin, Fox prepared for the clergy at Cambridge University. He was also a naturalist and ...

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He was born at Carlisle, the eldest son of Robert Creighton, a well-to-do upholsterer. He was educated at Durham grammar school and at Merton College, Oxford, where he was elected to a postmastership in 1862. He obtained a first-class in literae humaniores, and a second in law and modern history in 1866. In the same year he became tutor and fellow of Merton. He was ordained deacon, on his fellowship, in 1870, and priest in [[1873]. In 1872, he married Louise von Glehn (1850-1936), daughter of Robert von Glehn, a London merchant ...

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In 1897, on the translation of Dr Frederick Temple to Canterbury, Creighton was appointed Bishop of London. During Dr Temple's episcopate, ritual irregularities of all kinds had grown up, which left a very difficult task to his successor, and Creighton had to bear the brunt of public disapproval. His efforts towards conciliation laid him open to much misunderstanding. His administration nonetheless did much to preserve peace. He tried hard to persuade his clergy to accept his ruling on the questions of the reservation of the Sacrament and of ...

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Pseudo-Dionysius is credited as the first to attribute a specific hierarchy to the church. Christians were found in one of three orders: The Laity, The Religious, The Clergy. None of these orders was to be considered holier than the other; holiness was to be obtained within the order you found yourself in. Though lost for several centuries due to the growing association of hierarchy with lines of authority, this idea has been recaptured by Vatican II. Over time, the term became associated more specificly with those members of the chur ...

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Catholic church hierarchy - Patriarchs. Patriarch is the title for the highest-ranking bishop of an autonomous church or federation of local eparchies (dioceses) with effective jurisdiction over all its bishops. The Pope, as bishop of Rome, is the Patriarch of the Latin Rite (Roman) Catholic Church. As such he is also the first ranked among the patriarchs and head of the college of bishops in the entire Catholic Church. Most of his authority and the daily activity of the roman curia are in fact ...

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Minister Christianity - Priests/Vicars. The Roman Catholic, Orthodox churches and some Anglican or Episcopal churches refer to their ordained clergy as priests and bishops. Minister is not a title used by the ordained clergy (e.g. priests) nor is it a form of address for them (see Catholic minister). The term rector (from the Latin word for ruler) or vicar may be used for priests in certain settings, especially in the Anglican and Episcopal traditions. A rector is considered higher in rank than a vicar but lower than a bishop. In the Roman Catholic tradit ...

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Patriarchate of Carthage - Apostolic Vicar of Tunis c. 1650-1884. Jean le Vacher (1650-1683), from 1668 also Apostolic Vicar of Algiers unknown; Suppressed in 1798 and restored in 1843 Mgr. Sutter (1843-1881) Patriarchate of Carthage - Archbishops of Carthage 1884-1964. Charles-Martial Allemand-Lavigerie (1881-1892), archbishop from 1884. Barthélemy Clément Combes (1893-1922) Alexis Lemaître (192 ...

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