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The Trial of Bishop King (Read v Bishop of Lincoln)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

John A. Newton
John A. Newton
Affiliation:
Honorary Canon of Lincoln Cathedral Associate Lecturer in Church History, Wesley College, Bristol
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The trial of Bishop Edward King (1829–1910) and the judgment which issued from it proved a landmark in the history of the Victorian Church of England. The judgment was also a turning point in the history of the Catholic Revival, and the bitter series of ritual disputes to which it gave rise. Edward Norman categorised the trial as ‘One of the most important, as well as one of the most extraordinary episodes in the religious history of the nineteenth century.’ R. W. Church, Dean of St Paul's, hailed the judgment as ‘The most courageous thing that has come out of Lambeth for the last 200 years.’ Others, inevitably, given the passions roused by the ritualist controversy, took a more jaundiced view; but few serious Church people were indifferent to the result.

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Research Article
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 25 , July 1999 , pp. 265 - 271
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical Law Society 1999

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