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SOUTH INDIA

Catalogue reference: W.Temple 29

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This record is a file about the SOUTH INDIA dating from 1 Nov 1943-13 June 1944.

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Reference

W.Temple 29

Title

SOUTH INDIA

Date

1 Nov 1943-13 June 1944

Description

Papers relating to a proposed scheme for church union in South India, including correspondence from: Edwin James Palmer, Assistant Bishop of Gloucester (passim), including a published copy of his pamphlet 'South India: The Meaning of the Scheme for Church Union' (ff. 236-53); John Russell Darbyshire, Archbishop of Cape Town (ff. 11-14, 92-3); Archbishop Temple (passim), including a published copy (ff. 218-21) and draft (ff. 222-33) of 'Problems of Unity', his address delivered in the Upper House of Convocation on 21 January 1944, and a printed copy of his reply as metropolitan of Canterbury to formal questions of the metropolitan of India (ff. 291-2); Stephen Frederick Burstal Bedale, Director-General of the Society of the Sacred Mission, along with heads of religious communities (ff. 21-31); Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York (ff. 33, 90, 123, 157, 182, 381); Norman Henry Tubbs, Assistant Bishop and Dean of Chester (f. 43); Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Bishop of London (ff. 61-2, 129, 172, 265, 271-2); Gregory Dix, Prior of Nashdom Abbey (ff. 68, 103, 122); George Kennedy Allen Bell, Bishop of Chichester (ff. 69, 126, 270); Leonard Hodgson, Canon of Christ Church, Oxford (ff. 76-7, 333-6); Oliver Chase Quick, Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford (ff. 81-2); James Hutchison Cockburn, Minister of Dunblane Cathedral (ff. 89, 116, 382, 394); Harry Bevir Vaisey (f. 91); Robert Cecil Mortimer (f. 95); David Herbert Somerset Cranage, Dean of Norwich (ff. 100, 127, 263-4, 365); Edward Sydney Woods, Bishop of Lichfield (f. 105); Kenneth Charles Harman Warner, Archdeacon of Lincoln (ff. 124, 132, 163, 322); Mervyn George Haigh, Bishop of Winchester (ff. 128, 173, 284-9); William Cosmo Gordon Lang, Baron Lang of Lambeth (f. 130); Francis de Witt Batty, Bishop of Newcastle, Australia (f. 134), enclosing a leaflet on intercommunion in Australia (ff. 135-8, another copy: ff. 337-40); Bishop Frederick James Western (ff. 156, 368, 390); Frederick Joseph John Shirley, Headmaster of the King's School, Canterbury (ff. 165-8); Kenneth Escott Kirk, Bishop of Oxford (ff. 174-8, 205, 207, 275-7); Gerald Webb Broomfield, Secretary of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (f. 185), enclosing a published copy of his 'Constitutional Episcopacy' (ff. 186-99); James Edward Lesslie Newbigin, Church of Scotland Missionary (ff. 200-3); Sir Philip Baker Wilbraham (f. 216); Edmund Douglas Merritt, Rural Dean of St. Pancras (ff. 259, 261); Cyril Edward Hudson, Canon of St. Albans (f. 274); Eric Knightley Chetwode Hamilton, Suffragan Bishop of Shrewsbury (f. 299); Edgar William James Hellins, editor of the Canterbury Chronicle of Convocation (f. 301); John William Charles Wand, Bishop of Bath and Wells (ff. 302-4, 343); William Frederick Lofthouse (f. 306); Edward Gordon Selwyn, Dean of Winchester (f. 307); Roy Drummond Whitehorn, Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council (ff. 313-15); Henry Balmforth, Canon of Ely (ff. 323-7); the Church Union (f. 342); Foss Westcott, Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India, Burma and Ceylon (ff. 350-3, 358); Reginald Tribe, Director of the Society of the Sacred Mission (f. 360); Cecil Douglas Horsley, Bishop of Colombo (f. 362); Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah, Bishop of Dornakal (ff. 369, 391, 393); Raymond Richard Elliott Raynes, Father Superior of the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield, Yorkshire (ff. 366-7); Henry Dewsbury Alves Major, Principal of Ripon Hall, Oxford (ff. 385-6); Arthur Henry Anstey, Bishop of Trinidad and Archbishop of the West Indies (f. 388); and Howard West Kilvinton Mowll, Archbishop of Sydney (f. 389).

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Language

English

Physical description

398 ff.

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/f3ba029d-85ac-423a-854d-8f0aeee3e5d1/

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W.Temple/1-62

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SOUTH INDIA