The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE EPISCOPATE•

A scheme has been matured for materially increasing
the hierarchy of the church, and will be submitted for the
consideration of theulegislature in the course nf the pre'
sentsession. The plan provides for the establishment of
new bishoprics, and the manner in which endowments
may be obtained. It is proposed to leave the. dioceses of
Bangor, St. Asaph,, and Llandaff as they are at present;
but to divide the diocese of St. David's, forming a new
see at Brecon, to include the archdee.conries of Brecon
and Cardigan. From the diocese of Bath and. Wells
would be detached the archdeaconry of Bath, and uniting
it to the archdeaconry of Bristol, the see of Bristol and
Bath would be restored. The archiepiscopal . diocese of
Canterbury would be reduced to half its • present size,
placing the remainder of Kent under the see of Rochester,
as in former times. The diocese of Chichester, wobich now
includes the whole of Sussex, and no more, would be left
untouched. The diocese of Ely would give tne.archdea-
conries of Bedford and Huntingdon to one new see A
Bedford, and that at Sudbury to another -at Bury St-
Edmund's. The diocese of Exeter would have. one neer
bishop for Cornwall at Bodmin, and one for the archdea-
conries of Barnstaple and Totnesa seated at Plymouth,
From the dioceses of Hereford and of Lichfield would be
detached the whole of the county of Salop, which would
be placed under a new bishop at Shrewsbury, In the &to'
cese of Lichfield a new see would be erected for the county
of Derby, at Derby. In the diocese of Lincoln the pre'
sent episcopal see would retain nearly one-half of the
Archdeaconry of Lincoln. The sourthern part would
have a new.see at Stamford or Boston, and the Archdes"
conry of Stow and the northern part of the Archdeaconry
of Lincoln. would have a new see at Gainsborough. Tbe,,
Archdeaconry of Nottingham would have a new see s'"
Southwell. In the diocese of London amw see would be
founded at Westminster, to take charge of part of West..
minster, Southwark, and :3urrey. In the diocese of Nor',
wich two additional sees would be founded in Norfolk, 01:,
Yarmouth. and WalsinOiam, and one in Suffolk,
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Ipswich. From the diocese of Oxford, Berkshlr!
would be detached, and form the new diocese of Windsor?
Buckinghamshire also would be a new diocese. In the
rlecese of Peterborough. the Archdeaconry of Leiceo,
-41n14 be a distinct diocese and see. In the preSellv
diocese of Rochester„there -veuld be Bishops of Colches'_.
ter, iThelmsford, nal St. /Alen's, the see of Rochester
h.Mii.; restored to its ancient ittrisdictitm in Kent. The
r!;,,cese of Salisbury would boTlivided, and the county of
Dorset constitute a distinct bishopric, the see to be placed-
at Sherborne. In the diocese of Winchester, the Channel-
: Islandt would be provided with a Bishop of Jersey, be".,
sides the separation of Surrey, as already mentioned. 07',
the diocese of Worcester a new bishopric would be forte&
at Birmingham and Coventry for Warwickshire. Thesee,
of Carlisle would remain unaltered. The see of Chest!:
would be divided into those of Chester, Manchester (11°'
formed), Liverpool, and Lancaster. The county of Nadi'
umberland would be detached from Durham, and becolo
a distinct diocese under the see of Newcastle and 110 i
ham. The Archdeaconry of Craven in the diocese °
Ripon would become a new diocese, with a see at Haliffii
and Leeds. The Archdeaconry of? the East Riding on
that of Cleveland would be new dioceses under tbile
Bishops of Beverley and Whitby. Thus it will be se.ek
that the proposed addition amounts to 31 new sees, whics
would raise the whole number of episcopal sees in Englavi
and Wales to 56, besides the bishoprics. of Jersey ado
Sodor and Man. Then, as to the means by which fun ei
can be provided for the support of these bishops. l'i
bishopric of the Channel Islands would be competerito%
endowed by annexing it to the deanery of Jersey, so tb4
56 sees remain to be provided for. Setting aside the se',:
of Canterbury, York, London,. Durham, and Winchestee
for which a higher scale than the rest would be fixed, thes
would be 51 sees to be considered. Of these, 21 (th°-6,
having parliamentary seats) would have incomes of £3,,
and the remaining 30 would have incomes of £3,'-'4,
This would require the sum of £163,600. To the rly
. mac), £lO,OOO per annum would be given, to the Arc l,
bishop of York and the Bishop of London 0;000 rest
tively, and to the Bishops of Durham and Winches,o
£5,000, making a total of £36,000 per annum, or, on 1:0
whole, as income amounting to £199,500 for the suPP 0
of the hierarchy of England. The episcopal income.o
present is £170,000, and it is proposed that the reretur.to
£29,500 shall be raised by making parochial benTlkvitt
(which would be attached to the new dioceses) assll,o
the endowment of episcopal sees, which arrangement wg 0
have the advantage of providing residences :13 rreu
incomes.