of Bishop Burdon (Houghong)
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arrangements being made for placing them under Bishop
Poola (Japan)
came to add that Bishop Burdon
was not entitled to be
designated
Bishop
of Victoria Houghong.
His Letter Patent creating that see having been revoked by subsequent Letter,
Patent dated 24 November 1872. Bishop Burdon
was consecrated under H.M. Licence
directing the Archbishop of Canterbury to
consecrate him with the intent that he should exercise the office of Bishop in one of H.M. Possession, Abroad, his sphere
of action being assigned to him by the Archbishop