CO129-169 - Others - 1874 — Page 323

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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Consular.

Foreign Office,

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August 13, 1874.

I have to acquaint you that the Reverend Waite Hookin Stirling has, with the sanction and approbation of the Queen, been consecrated according to the rites of the Church of England, and has been appointed to be a Bishop to reside in the Falkland Blands; and I have further to

acquaint you

that it has been ordered, with Her Majesty's

permission, that the spiritual superintendence hitherto exercised

by the Lord Bishop of London

over

the Ministers and

Congregations of the Church of England in certain Countries in South America, including that Country in which

Bishop Stirling.

you

Her Majesty's Government trust that all such

reside, shall henceforth dovolve on

Ministers and Congregations will

the

recognize

position

which

spiritual matters; and it is the

Bishop Stirling holds in spiritual matters;

intention and desire of Her Majesty's Government that Her

Her Majesty's Cop I

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