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  Encyclopedia: Bishop of Carlisle
The Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Saint Edmundsbury and Ipswich in the Province of Canterbury.
The Bishop of Coventry is the Ordinary of the England Diocese of Coventry in the Province of Canterbury.
The Bishop of Argyll and the Isles is the Ordinary of the Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Argyll and the Isles.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bishop-of-Carlisle   (5961 words)

  
 Images Of Cumbria - Annals of the Bishops of Carlisle
This bishop was one of the plenipotentiaries of Edward I in the treaty with the commissioners of Scotland, in 1290, for the marriage between prince Edward and Margaret, daughter of Eric, king of Norway, and hereditary princess and queen of Scotland.
Owen Oglethorp was appointed bishop of Carlisle, in 1556, being one of the Oxford doctors appointed by Henry in the preceding year, to dispute with Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, on the doctrine of the seven sacraments.
The present bishop, John Wareing Bardsley, D.D., was formerly archdeacon of Liverpool, and was consecrated bishop of Sodor and Man in 1887, and transferred to Carlisle in 1892.
www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk /cumbria/annals_bishops_f.html   (3240 words)

  
 Images Of Cumbria - Diocesan Histories : Carlisle
In 1681 Bishop Rainbow appointed him to a stall in Carlisle cathedral, with the vicarage of Torpenhow, and in 1682 to the archdeaconry of Carlisle, which was held with the rectory of Great Salkeld.
In 1702 Nicolson was appointed Bishop of Carlisle, and was consecrated at Lambeth [in London] in June.
Bishops living in the diocese with and among their clergy have done much to elevate it from what it was when Nicolson made his famous notes, or even from the improved condition recorded of it in 1747 by Chancellor Waugh.
www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk /cumbria/diocese_ferguson10_f.html   (4258 words)

  
 Bishop of Carlisle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Bishop supports Richard and accompanies him on his return from Ireland to face Bolingbroke.
The actual Carlisle was a monk who received the title of bishop since he served Richard well.
Carlisle did conspire against Henry, but was not pardoned.
www.umich.edu /~shkspre/richardii/characters/carlisle.htm   (121 words)

  
 Independent Catholic News
In 1925 Carlisle was predominantly a railway town.
Bishop Wulstan Pearson wouldn't recognise the Church of today: Bishop Patrick wouldn't want to be part of the 1925 episcopal style.
He met the Bishop of Carlisle, the Chairman of the Methodist District, prosecutors, teachers, school governors, catechists, members of parish organisations, pupils in our schools, farmers, divorced and separated Catholics, and our ecumenical brethren, as well as very many ordinary parishioners to numerous to mention.
www.indcatholicnews.com /carlise.html   (702 words)

  
 Bishop of Carlisle -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The diocese was created in 1133 by (King of England from 1100 to 1135; youngest son of William the Conqueror; conquered Normandy in 1106 (1068-1135)) Henry I out of part of the (additional info and facts about Diocese of Durham) Diocese of Durham.
The current (A clergyman having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve apostles of Christ) bishop is The Right Reverend Graham Dow, the 66th Bishop of Carlisle who signs Graham Carlisle.
Granted by (Youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216)) King John
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bishop_of_carlisle.htm   (873 words)

  
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The Carlisle Bishop's Register states that he was ordained Deacon, by the Bishop of Carlisle, on May 19th, 1706.
Bishop Nicolson was keenly interested in education, and highly critical of the state of schooling at Cumwhitton.
It is clear though that Bishop Nicolson had high expectations of him, and felt that he would make a difference to the life and educational standards of this rural parish.
www.cus.cam.ac.uk /~mf10006/william-curate.html   (1360 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Archbishop to lift 'evil' curse linked to foot and mouth
AN "evil" 16th-century curse inscribed on a giant stone in Cumbria - the centrepiece of a £6.7 million millennium exhibition - is to be "exorcised" by an archbishop after clergy complained that it generated "spiritual violence".
The Bishop of Carlisle, the Rt Rev Graham Dow, is backing local Christians who believe that the curse exerts a malevolent influence.
Bishop Dow's comments follow claims by the Rev Kevin Davies, the vicar of Scotby and Cotehill with Cumwhinton, that the stone may be to blame for the severity of the foot and mouth outbreak.
www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/04/nfnm04.xml&sSheet=/news/2001/11/04/ixhomef.html   (631 words)

  
 Bartholomew's notes on religion
Bishop Dow has hit the headlines on several occasions this year after joining the row over homosexuality within the Church of England and after it was revealed he believes evil spirits can be introduced into the world through miscarriages, abortions, oral and anal sex.
In 1990 Bishop Dow, a close friend on [sic] the Prime Minister Tony Blair, wrote a booklet, Explaining Deliverance, in which his views on evil spirits were revealed.
I have heard stories that while he was Bishop of Willesden he was in the habit of performing impromptu exorcisms on teenagers up for confirmation.
blogs.salon.com /0003494/2005/03/08.html   (550 words)

  
 syn-richard2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bolingbroke says he intends to recall Mowbray and restore his lands, but the Bishop of Carlisle tells them that the Duke has died in exile.
Carlisle is horrified, predicting discord and violence should traitorous Bolingbroke become king.
Left alone with Carlisle and Aumerle, the Abbot of Westminster confides that he has a plan for overthrowing Bolingbroke.
www.angelfire.com /journal2/amfr4/personal/syn-richard2.html   (1071 words)

  
 Guardian | Kisses, threats and rows: vicar has his day in court
The Bishop of Carlisle said in a statement this year that he had received "a substantial number" of allegations about Mr Brown's conduct.
The bishop and complainants including Chris Collier, the head of the Cumbrian tourist board, are expected to give evidence today.
Bishops and archbishops who transgress are dealt with under a different procedure.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4494732-103690,00.html   (1222 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Church resignations over vicar sacking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Two-thirds of members of a south Cumbrian church council, whose vicar was sacked by the Bishop of Carlisle, have resigned in protest.
The church council resignations were announced at a public meeting held by the Bishop of Carlisle on Wednesday night.
Mr Brown, 49, was sacked by the Bishop of Carlisle, the Right Rev Graham Dow, in September 2001 following allegations by parishioners in Crosscrake and Preston Patrick.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/england/2824597.stm   (312 words)

  
 Carlisle Page for the Annotated "Terrapin Station"
The older Carlisle is in England, in County Cumbria, on the Scottish border.
Carlisle's mythic past goes all the way back to King Arthur, who was said to have ruled in the murky period following the withdrawal of Roman armies--around the fifth century.
In Shakespeare's King Richard II, the Bishop of Carlisle is one of King Richard's most loyal subjects, who unsuccessfully tries to prevent a coup to depose the King.
arts.ucsc.edu /gdead/agdl/carlisle.html   (1189 words)

  
 titusonenine » Blog Archive » Private matters do count, says English Bishop
The declaration is made by the Bishop of Carlisle, the Rt Rev Graham Dow, who says that for God there is no divide between public and private morality.
Bishop Dow’s forthright views reflect comments made recently by the Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Rev James Jones.
Bishop Dow says disclosures about the private lives of politicians and others are accompanied by the chorus that “what a public figure does in private is entirely their own business” and has no relevance to their competence in their public role.
titusonenine.classicalanglican.net /index.php?p=2814   (1472 words)

  
 The Westmorland Gazette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Yesterday evening, counsel for the Bishop of Carlisle, Geoffrey Tattersall QC told Mr Brown, 49, that one of the sexual harassment allegations was serious and not a game.
Mr Brown is appealing against a decision last September by the Bishop of Carlisle, the Rt Rev Graham Dow, to revoke his licence.
Towards the end of yesterday's evidence, the Archbishop said it had become very clear that the hearing would not be completed Friday as had been expected and would need to continue at a later date for a further two days.
www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=250222   (290 words)

  
 The Church House - Its Art and Symbolism
But the whole Church of England knows that it is mainly to his vision, faith and imagination and to his remarkable financial and administrative ability that it owes both the conception and the building of the Church House.
They could scarcely have been overcome at all if the Bishop had not possessed in himself the mingled "firmness and patience" of which he writes.
He would be the first to acknowledge the value of the help and advice given by the Council of the Corporation of the Church House.
www.churchhouse.org.uk /art/preface.shtml   (485 words)

  
 ROBLEY GENEALOGY
Bishop Nicolson's report of William's arrival, in 1703, raises speculation about his status at that time.
The question had to remain an open one, however, because we could not think of a reason why she would have wanted to be married at Wetheral.
A query on the Cumberland Rootsweb Message-Board, in which I described William Robley as a relative by marriage of Bishop Nicolson, attracted the attention of the Nevinson researchers.
www.cus.cam.ac.uk /~mf10006/william-robley.html   (1201 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ven. Christopher Robinson
Born at Woodside, near Westward, Cumberland, date unknown; executed at Carlisle, 19 Aug., 1598.
He was admitted to the English College at Reims in 1589, and was ordained priest and sent on the mission in 1592.
Eventually he was arrested and imprisoned at Carlisle, where Bishop Robinson, who may have been a relative, did his best to persuade him to save his life by conforming, under 27 Eliz., c.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13099b.htm   (208 words)

  
 Carlisle House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
About 1197 a house was built for the Bishop of Rochester on a site between modern day Hercules Road and Carlisle Lane.
In 1531 a poisoning attempt was made on Rochester Bishop John Fisher by his cook Richard Rouse(Rose).
In 1539 the Bishop of Carlisle took over the house.
www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Carlisle.html   (208 words)

  
 Royal Archaeological Institute, 1882   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The opening address was delivered by the Bishop of Carlisle as president of the meeting.
He dwelt at length upon the interesting nature of the antiquarian and archaeological associations of the city of Carlisle, which a high authority (Mr.
Lord Talbot, in moving a vote of thanks to the Bishop of Carlisle for his address, intimated his intention to retire from the presidency of the institute.
www.londonancestor.com /newspaper/1882/0805/archaeology-institute.htm   (415 words)

  
 Telegraph | News
The Archbishop of Canterbury was facing a fresh storm over homosexuality last night after it emerged that the Church of England's most recently appointed bishop had been in a gay relationship for decades.
The Bishop of Carlisle, the Rt Rev Graham Dow, said that a number of his fellow bishops had been "deeply concerned" about the appointment.
Although Bishop Harries told traditionalists this week that Dr John was not in a sexual relationship and would uphold the Church's current teachings, his assurances have failed to quell the anger.
www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/06/nbish06.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/06/06/ixnewstop.html   (473 words)

  
 Richard II: Commentary (4)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
All we know of Carlisle is that he is a follower of Richard, and might be expected to support him.
Carlisle begins by arguing that as the "figure of God's majesty" (125) the King is above judgment by any but God.
Carlisle makes something of a tactical error, however, when he argues that Richard himself should be present at the moment of being sentenced, since Bolingbroke is able to appear to answer the whole of Carlisle's attack by agreeing that Richard should be summoned--and when he comes, Richard in effect deposes himself.
www.engl.uvic.ca /Faculty/MBHomePage/ISShakespeare/R2Course/R2com4.html   (1618 words)

  
 buckland11chpVIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He was Bishop of Carlisle from 1223 to 1246, when he resigned.
During his life the Southwell Prebendal Livings were assigned to the Bishops of Manchester and Ripon, prior to the formation of the See of Southwell to which they ought to be restored.
Slight the parishioners of Woodborough petitioned the Bishop of Manchester to appoint him Vicar of Woodborough, to which the Bishop (Moorhouse) assented on condition that Lord Wantage gave him the presentation to Beedon.
web.ukonline.co.uk /woodborough-heritage/buckland/buckland11chpVIII.html   (2890 words)

  
 titusonenine » Blog Archive » “Bishop defends modern services”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Bishop of Carlisle, the Rt Rev Graham Dow, was unequivocal in his backing for Mr Price: “Derek is seeking to shape a church in the generations ahead.
Graham Dow, the Bishop of Carlisle, is nobody’s fool.
It was his judgment, evidently supported by the bishop, that changes were necessary.
titusonenine.classicalanglican.net /index.php?p=6995   (1652 words)

  
 Thomas Merke - TheBestLinks.com - Benedictine, England, Germany, Oxford University, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Educated at Oxford University, be became a Benedictine monk at Westminster Abbey.
He thereafter served as a deputy and acting bishop in the Diocese of Winchester several times.
He was one of those churchmen who sided against Pope Gregory XII at Lucca in 1408.
www.thebestlinks.com /Thomas_Merke.html   (202 words)

  
 Bishop Bell’s brass behemoths!
Another engraving on Bishop Bell’s tomb-brass (Figure 5) seems unlike any living animal.  Sadly, it is very worn but we can discern a head and mouth of crocodile proportions.  However, the legs are unlike those of a crocodilian and the animal seems more likely to be a now-extinct reptilian creature.
Dobson, B., Richard Bell, prior of Durham (1464–78) and bishop of Carlisle (1478–95), in: Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquities and Archives Society 65:182–221, 1965.
Dr Owen (later Professor Sir Richard Owen) made this famous announcement at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, on the basis of knowledge of fossil skeletons of Iguanodon, Megalosaurus and Hyaeosaurus.
www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v25/i4/bishop.asp   (1319 words)

  
 Hughie Graham
Child states that the legend behind the tune is that Robert Aldridge, Bishop of Carlisle, seduced Hugh Graham's wife.
He was pursued by the Warden of Carlisle, John Scroope and was caught near Solway Moss.
Although Hugh does not appear among the first names of the Grahams of that time, Robert Aldridge was the bishop of Carlisle from 1537 to 1555 and Lord Scroope held the office of English warden of the West Marches in 1542.
www.contemplator.com /child/hughie.html   (284 words)

  
 SparkNotes: Richard II: Act III, scenes i-ii
Having dispatched this piece of business, Bolingbroke sends greetings to Queen Isabel via the Duke of York, at whose house she is staying, and gathers up his men to fight some rebellious Welsh before heading to the main battle.
Meanwhile, King Richard has landed on the coast of Wales, at "Barkloughly" Castle (actually called Harlech), accompanied by the Duke of Aumerle, the Bishop of Carlisle, and some soldiers.
Richard gives a long, eloquent, and despairing monologue, but the Bishop of Carlisle tells him to recover hope: giving in to fear and despair, he say, will do the enemy's work for him.
www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/richardii/section8.rhtml   (1113 words)

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