Letters Patent - Appointing a Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham [1870-01-26]

Letters Patent - Appointing a Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham [1870-01-26]

Suffragan Bishops

Letters Patent of Queen Victoria appointing Henry Mackenzie to be Suffragan Bishop of Nottingham in the Diocese of Lincoln.

Queen Victoria

1870-01-26

Jason Loch

Diocese of Lincoln

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the Faith, to the Most Reverend Father in God our right trusty and right entirely beloved Councillor Archibald Campbell, by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and Metropolitan, and to all other Bishops herein concerned, Greeting: Whereas the Right Reverend Father in God Christopher, by Divine Permission Bishop of Lincoln, has, by his writing, under his seal, bearing date at Lincoln, on the Seventeenth day of November One thousand Eight hundred and Sixty-nine, presented to Us the names of the Venerable Henry Mackenzie, Doctor in Divinity, Archdeacon of Nottingham, and Sub-Dean of Lincoln, and the Reverend Francis Morse, Master of Arts, Vicar of St. Mary's, Nottingham, and Prebendary of Lincoln, with a humble prayer that We would be graciously pleased to grant to one of such two persons the title, name, style, and dignity of Bishop Suffragan of the See of Nottingham, and has certified Us that the two persons aforesaid are of good life and conversation, learned and discreet, born in lawful wedlock, of due age, and ordained priests, and that there is nothing in the Laws Ecclesiastical which ought to obstruct or hinder their admission to the episcopal dignity of a Suffragan of this realm, We, assenting to his prayer, have of our special grace and mere motion, nominated the said Venerable Henry Mackenzie, one of the two persons so presented to Us, to be Bishop Suffragan of the See of Nottingham aforesaid, and do grant to him the style, title, and dignity of Bishop Suffragan of the See of Nottingham aforesaid, and do by these our Letters Patent, under our Great Seal, present to you the said Venerable Henry Mackenzie, requiring and commanding you, by the faith and allegiance with which you stand bound to Us, to consecrate the said Henry Mackenzie to be Bishop Suffragan of the See of Nottingham, and to give him all such benedictions and ceremonies as to the degree and office of a Bishop Suffragan shall be requisite, and which belong to your pastoral office, according to the laws and statutes of England in this behalf made and provided. In witness whereof We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of January, in the Thirty-third year of Our reign.

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