Assertion: diocese's priest | /r/HasProperty | consecrated as legal obstacles
Facets:
value: in 1787
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In 1787, two priests—William White of Pennsylvania and Samuel Provoost of New York—were consecrated as bishops by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, and the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the legal obstacles having been removed by the passage through Parliament of the Consecration of Bishops Abroad Act 1786.