MORE BISHOPS WANTED.
AN INTERESTING TABLE.
8l Teleeranh—Press Aesociailon—Ooorrizht (Rec. July 28, 10, p.m.) . London, July 28. In tho House of-Lords a Bill to facilitate the creation of new bishoprics and to amend the Bishops' .Resignation Act has been read a second time. "The need for a great increase in diocesan bishops is so urgent that' it can bo seen at a glance," writes Father Paul Bull in the "Church Times." "Th,e number of bishops in, relation to tho population of England and Wales through the centuries is as follows: Population. Sees. 1066 900,000 18 1377 2,700,000 22 1690 5,200,000 27 1801 8,892,530 26 1831 1-4,156,988 26 IS6I 20,060,221 28 1891 29,002,525 31 1908 34,000,000 37 "It will bo seen from this table that since the Norman' Conquest wo have created only nineteen now Sees to provide for on increase of tbirty-threa millions in the population. In the days of old there was one bishop for every one hundred thousand of the . population; there is now one bishop for about a million."
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 881, 29 July 1910, Page 5
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172MORE BISHOPS WANTED. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 881, 29 July 1910, Page 5
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