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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 16:04:56 -0700


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From: Jane O'Brien <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 10:59 AM
Subject: [CountyCork-L] The Church of Ireland in ireland in 1931

>THE CHURCH OF IRELAND (1931)
>
>There were 33 Church of Ireland Dioceses in 1931. All incumbents on
>vacancies occurring, were appointed by the several Boards of Nominations,
>except I some cases of District Churches and Parochial Chapels, where
>Trustees were appointed previous to the Dis-establishment, and in parishes
>where , under the statutes of the Church, Donors by Endowment acquired the
>Patronage.
>
>Until Jan 1, 1871, the Church of Ireland was established by Law and was
>combined with the Church of England, by the Act of Union (1800). The
>Bishops and beneficed Clergy had a freehold in their offices, and in the
>emoluments and privileges belonging to these offices; the resources of the
>Church were practically all derived from the tithe rent charges, from the
>annual rents or produce of Church lands, from occasional private
>subscriptions, and from the income arising out of private benefactions.
The
>lay members of the church were entitled to all the ministrations of its
>clergy without any liability to support it with their contributions; and
>they had neither authority nor responsibility in relation to the management
>of its temporal affairs.
>
>The Irish Church Act, 1869, provided that from January 1, 1871, the
>statutory union between the Churches of England and Ireland should be
>dissolved, and that the Church of Ireland should cease to be established by
>law. Subject to the vested interests of the then existing Bishops, Clergy
>and other Church officers, all such Church property of every kind was
vested
>in the ‘Commissioners of Church Temporalities’ who were created by the Act
>and who carried out al the transactions that the Act required - in
>realising all items of property, selling Church lands to occupying tenants
>and others and discharging all liabilities imposed by the Act, and, from
>time to time, as parliament might direct, appropriating the surplus to
>various Irish purposes.
>
>All the Ecclesiastical Corporations that existed under former conditions
>having been dissolved by the Irish Church Act, the necessity arose for the
>creation of a new corporate body to take over from the Church Temporalities
>Commissioners whatever property and moneys under the e Act were to be
>transferred to the Authorities of the disestablished Church, and to be the
>trustee and agent in respect of property and funds subsequently acquired.
>This was met by the corporation in 1870 of the Representative Church Body.
>This body was constituted so as to include representatives from every part
>of Ireland.
>
>By recognising the vested interests of the Bishops, Clergy and other church
>officers who were in office when the Act came into operation and their
>rights to receive their respective emoluments during their lives and by
>making it a condition, that in return they should render the same service
as
>before, an opportunity was afforded by the authorities to make plans for
>future church sustentation. It was eventually decided that instead of
>having a general plan for all Ireland , local effort would be stimulated to
>a greater degree, and other advantages secured by having a separate plan
>for each diocese or group of dioceses in which the resources of all the
>parishes under the plan would be pooled, and by which a steady voluntary
>effort on a uniform principle from the very beginning on the part of all
the
>parishes would eventually secure on the disappearance of the last
surviving
>annuitant, an accumulated capital, the interest on which, with the same
>regular annual subscriptions from the parishes, would fully meet the
>Stipends secured to the Clergy of the Diocese under each particular scheme.
>
>At a General Convention held in 1870, it was declared as a general and
>fundamental principle, that a General Synod consisting of the Archbishops
>and Bishops, and of representatives of the Clergy and Laity "shall have
>chief legislative power as may be necessary and consistent with its
>Episcopal constitution""
>The General Synod consists of three orders, the Bishops, the Clergy and the
>Laity. These sit as two Houses, the House of Bishops consisting of all the
>Archbishops and Bishops and the House of Representatives, consisting of 216
>Clerical and 432 Lay Representatives, distributed among the dioceses and
>elected every third year by the Diocesan Synods.
>
>The Registered Vestrymen are Church members who either own property or are
>resident in the parish, or are accustomed members of the congregation of
the
>Church or Churches in the parish. They are the constituency that elects
9a0
>one of the Churchwardens - the other being nominated by the Incumbent; (b)
>members of the Select Vestry which controls the Parochial Charity and
Church
>Funds © the Lay Synodsmen who sit in the Diocesan Synod and (d) the three
>Parochial Nominators who with the Bishop and the three Diocesan Nominators
>elected by the Diocesan Synod elect the Board of Nomination with whom rests
>the appointment of the Incumbent of the parish.
>
>
>
>
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