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Ecclesiastical Titles Act
Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 1851. In 1850, Pope Pius IX, encouraged by Nicholas Wiseman, announced the restoration of a Roman catholic hierarchy in England with English territorial titles, such as archbishop of Westminster. This provocative move, accompanied by comments on ‘the Anglican schism’, was the consequence of the great numerical increase from Irish immigration of Roman catholics in England in the 1840s and the church's more aggressive attitude to proselytization in England; it caused one of the final bouts of English anti-popery. Lord John Russell, the prime minister, further encouraged protests by his ‘Durham letter’ and by passing in 1851 the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, which forbade Roman catholics from using English place-name titles. Opponents of the bill such as Gladstone pointed out that the episcopalian church in Scotland, which was not established, already did what the Roman catholics proposed to do. The Act was a dead letter from the start and was repealed by Gladstone in 1871.
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JOHN CANNON. "Ecclesiastical Titles Act." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Ecclesiastical Titles Act." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-EcclesiasticalTitlesAct.html JOHN CANNON. "Ecclesiastical Titles Act." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-EcclesiasticalTitlesAct.html |
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Ecclesiastical Titles Act
Ecclesiastical Titles Act (1851), forbidding Catholic clerics to assume ecclesiastical titles taken from any place in the United Kingdom. The act was introduced by the Liberal government of Lord John Russell, in response to the re‐creation in 1850 of an English Catholic hierarchy. To Protestants, this was the ‘papal aggression’, a wholly unacceptable assertion by a foreign power of authority over British territory. Irish Catholics of all shades of opinion, however, regarded the act as a gratuitous insult, and the demand for its repeal provided the main impetus for the creation of the Independent Irish Party (see independent opposition party).
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"Ecclesiastical Titles Act." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Ecclesiastical Titles Act." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-EcclesiasticalTitlesAct.html "Ecclesiastical Titles Act." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-EcclesiasticalTitlesAct.html |
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Ecclesiastical Titles Act
Ecclesiastical Titles Act, 1851. In 1850, Pope Pius IX, encouraged by Nicholas Wiseman, announced the restoration of a Roman catholic hierarchy in England with English territorial titles, such as archbishop of Westminster. This provocative move caused one of the final bouts of English anti‐popery. Lord John Russell, the prime minister, encouraged protests by his ‘Durham letter’ and by passing in 1851 the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, which forbade Roman catholics from using English place‐name titles. The Act was a dead letter and was repealed by Gladstone in 1871.
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JOHN CANNON. "Ecclesiastical Titles Act." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Ecclesiastical Titles Act." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-EcclesiasticalTitlesAct.html JOHN CANNON. "Ecclesiastical Titles Act." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-EcclesiasticalTitlesAct.html |
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