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unusual facts about The Right Reverend



Church of Ceylon

The Church of Ceylon, which is the Anglican Church in Sri Lanka, was established with the appointment of its first Bishop, Rt Rev James Chapman in 1845 as the Bishop of Colombo.

Rathmullan

In 1617 the Friary was occupied by the Protestant Bishop of Raphoe, The Rt. Rev. Dr. Andrew Knox, who turned it into a Lough Swilly from a possible French invasion during the Napoleonic Wars.


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Anglican Catholic Church of Canada

On January 27, 2007 two suffragan bishops, the Right Reverend Craig Botterill and the Right Reverend Carl Reid, were consecrated by the Primate of the Traditional Anglican Communion, Archbishop John Hepworth, assisted by then Diocesan and Metropolitan of the ACCC, Bishop Peter Wilkinson (2005-2012), and retired former diocesan Bishop Robert Mercer, CR (1988-2005).

Annie Wright School

Annie Wright Schools were founded by railroad magnate Charles Barstow Wright and the Right Reverend James Adams Paddock in 1884, nine years before the first paved road in Tacoma.

Baron Ponsonby of Imokilly

The aforementioned the Right Reverend the Honourable Richard Ponsonby, third son of the first Baron, was Bishop of Derry and Raphoe.

Baron Sandford

He was the son of Sir Daniel Sandford, politician and Greek scholar, the grandson of the Right Reverend Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Edinburgh, the brother of Daniel Sandford, Bishop of Tasmania, and the first cousin of the Right Reverend Charles Sandford, Bishop of Gibraltar.

Bishop of Chelmsford

The current bishop is the Right Reverend Stephen Cottrell, the 10th Bishop of Chelmsford, who signs Stephen Chelmsford.

Bishop of Coventry

The Right Reverend Dr Christopher Cocksworth was ordained and consecrated as the 9th Lord Bishop of Coventry on 3 July 2008 at Southwark Cathedral.

Bishop of Peterborough

The current and 38th Bishop of Peterborough is the Right Reverend Donald Allister.

Bishop of Sherborne

The current Bishop of Sherborne is the Right Reverend Dr Graham Kings, PhD, MA(Oxon), DipTh, who was consecrated in a special service at Westminster Abbey on 24 June 2009 by the Most Reverend Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.

Camberwell Cemeteries

In 1926 the first part of the land was laid out as a cemetery and was consecrated by the Right Reverend William Woodcock Hough, Bishop of Woolwich.

Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Portsmouth

It is the mother church of the Portsmouth diocese and seat of the Bishop of Portsmouth, currently the Right Reverend Philip Egan.

Cosmic ordering

Cosmic ordering has been criticised as "nonsense" by the Right Reverend Carl Cooper.

Diocese in Europe

The current suffragan bishop is the Right Reverend David Hamid, who was consecrated bishop on 17 October 2002.

Diocese of Rochester

Since 1994 the Bishop of Fulham (currently The Right Reverend Jonathan Baker, since 2013) has provided 'alternative episcopal oversight' in the diocese (along with London and Southwark) to those parishes which cannot in conscience accept the sacramental ministry of bishops who have participated in the ordination of women.

Eden baronets

The Right Reverend Robert Eden, third son of the second Baronet of Maryland, was Primus of Scotland and Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness.

Henry Thurston

On 23 September 1999 Mr Les Cooper, one of the oldest former pupils (1916 - 1925) formally opened the new buildings in the presence of the Bishop of Winchester, the Right Reverend Michael Scott-Joynt who conducted a service of Blessing.

James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury

The Right Reverend Lord William Cecil, Lord Cecil of Chelwood and Lord Quickswood were his younger brothers and Prime Minister Arthur Balfour his first cousin.

John Chew

Representatives of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Reverend Jonathan Gledhill, the Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Singapore, the Most Reverend Monsignor Nicholas Chia, the Bishop of the Methodist Church in Singapore, Dr Robert M Solomon and Dr Ong Chit Chung, Member of Parliament of Jurong GRC were among those who were present at the occasion.

John Wordsworth

He was born into a clerical family: his father was to become Bishop of Lincoln, his uncle, the Right Reverend Charles Wordsworth, Bishop of Saint Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane, and his grandfather, the Reverend Dr Christopher Wordsworth had been Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Julia Gardiner Tyler

Thus on June 26, 1844, the president slipped into New York City, where the nuptials were performed by the Right Reverend Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk, fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, at the Church of the Ascension, not too far from the Gardiner's residence on LaGrange Terrace.

Leek Wootton

When the village school was threatened by closure in the early 1990s, the community campaigned to save it and after moving to new premises, it was opened in 1996 by The Right Reverend Simon Barrington-Ward, Bishop of Coventry.

Mackenzie baronets

The Right Reverend Henry Mackenzie, Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham, was the youngest son of John Mackenzie, third in descent from Simon Mackenzie, second son of the first Baronet.

Marquess of Ely

He was the great-grandson of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles John Tottenham, DL, JP, eldest son of the Right Reverend Lord Robert Tottenham (who had not assumed the surname Loftus), second son of the first Marquess.

Mlibo Ngewu

which included the Dean of the Province and Bishop of Natal, The Right Reverend Rubin Phillip.

Nathaniel Ryder, 1st Baron Harrowby

Lord Harrowby married Elizabeth Terrick, daughter of the Right Reverend Richard Terrick, Bishop of London, in 1762.

Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon

On his father's side he was a great-grandson of the Right Reverend Charles Bernard, Bishop of Tuam, younger son of James Bernard, 2nd Earl of Bandon.

Percy Robert Diggle

Percy Robert Diggle was born on 27 November 1887, the son of the Venerable Archdeacon, the Right Reverend John William Diggle, who would later become the Bishop of Carlisle and his second wife Edith Moss, (the daughter of Gilbert Winter Moss and Eliza Seilliere Zwilchenbart whom he married on 23 April 1884).

Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote

The Right Reverend James Inskip was his elder half-brother and Sir John Hampden, Lord Mayor of Bristol, his younger brother.

Viscount Caldecote

Lord Caldecote's elder half-brother the Right Reverend James Inskip was a clergyman while his younger brother Sir John Hampden Inskip (1879–1960) was Lord Mayor of Bristol in 1931.

Viscount Harcourt

Harcourt was the son of Sir William Vernon Harcourt, son of William Vernon Harcourt, son of the Right Reverend Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt, son of George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon, by his third wife Martha Harcourt, daughter of Simon Harcourt, son of Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt.

William Benyon

He was born William Richard Shelley, the son of Vice-Admiral Richard Shelley (grandson of Richard Fellowes Benyon) and his wife, Eve Alice Gascoyne-Cecil, the daughter of the Right Reverend Lord (Rupert Ernest) William Gascoyne-Cecil, Bishop of Exeter.

William Otter

The Right Reverend William Otter (23 October 1768 – 20 August 1840) was the first Principal of King's College London who later served as Bishop of Chichester.

William Walter Webb

On November 10, 1886 he was ordained to the priesthood by the Right Reverend John Williams, Bishop of Connecticut.