Deans of Westminster

Buch Informationen

• Datum: 2010-09
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Sprache: en
• ISBN-10:1155175433
• ISBN-13:9781155175430

Beschreibung

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 32. Chapters: Lancelot Andrewes, John Earle, Dean and Canons of Westminster, William Buckland, Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Samuel Wilberforce, Francis Atterbury, William Vincent, Herbert Edward Ryle, Richard Cox, John Ireland, Richard Chenevix Trench, John Alcock, William Benson, Zachary Pearce, Samuel Horsley, John Williams, Gabriel Goodman, Thomas Sprat, John Robert Hall, Alan Campbell Don, Richard Neile, Hugh Weston, Arthur Wesley Carr, William Foxley Norris, Armitage Robinson, George Granville Bradley, William Bill, George Montaigne, Michael Mayne, Eric Abbott, List of Deans of Westminster, Robert Tounson, John Dolben, Edward Frederick Carpenter, Joseph Wilcocks. Excerpt: The Dean and Canons of Westminster are the ecclesiastical body of Westminster Abbey, a collegiate church of the Church of England and royal peculiar in Westminster, England. They meet in Chapter and are also known as the Dean and Chapter of Westminster. The first college of canons was established by letters patent on 17 December 1540 by King Henry VIII. There was a dean and 12 canons, six of whom were former monks of the abbey. They survived until 1556 when the college was dissolved by Mary I of England. The second college of canons was established on 21 May 1560 by Queen Elizabeth I. From 16 November 1645 the dean and canons were dispersed and a committee of the Lords and Commons from the Long Parliament governed. The dean and canons were restored on the Restoration in 1660. Canons of the 2nd Prebend Canons of the 3rd Prebend Canons of the 4th Prebend Canons of the 5th Prebend Canons of the 6th Prebend Canons of the 7th Prebend Canons of the 8th Prebend Canons of the 9th Prebend Canons of the 10th Prebend Canons of the 11th Prebend Canons of the 12th Prebend Secular chapter abolished 26 Sept. 1556 Canons of the 2nd Prebend Canons of the 3rd Prebend Canons of th... (Source: Google Boooks API)