Anglican Churchmen and the Establishment of the Jerusalem Bishopric
On 8 June 1841, Frederick William of Prussia sent Christian Carl Josias Bunsen on a special mission to England. Bunsen was to obtain the approval of the British government for a conference between himself on one side and Howley, as Primate of All England, and Blomfield, as immediate head of the cong...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1957
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 1957, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 193-204 |
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| Summary: | On 8 June 1841, Frederick William of Prussia sent Christian Carl Josias Bunsen on a special mission to England. Bunsen was to obtain the approval of the British government for a conference between himself on one side and Howley, as Primate of All England, and Blomfield, as immediate head of the congregations of the Anglican Church abroad, on the other. In this conference, he was to try to persuade the two prelates to concede to the Evangelical Church of Prussia ‘a sisterly position’ in the Holy Land. Deploring the disunity among Evangelical Protestants there, Frederick William instructed Bunsen to propose the establishment of a bishopric at Jerusalem as a joint enterprise by the Evangelical Church of Prussia and the Church of England. He would allow the clergy and missionaries of his own Church to work under the auspices of such a bishopric; and, whilst it was not his intention to sacrifice or jeopardise the independence of the Church of Prussia, any ordinations by the bishop of Jerusalem would be respected throughout his dominions. Two principles were to guide Bunsen: the utmost possible collaboration among protestants in the Turkish Empire, especially in the Holy Land, and the maintenance of an independent Evangelical German Church. Frederick William was intelligent enough to see that political and economic facts ruled out an exclusively Prussian episcopate in the Holy Land: it was a shrewd move to attach German congregations to a bishopric closely associated with the Church of England. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046900067488 |