The Bishops in Foreign Countries Act 1841 (5 Vict., c. 6) is an

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passed by the

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to enable the

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to create

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s overseas. The Act authorised the

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of a bishop for a foreign country who need not be a subject of the

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nor take the

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or of supremacy, while, on the other hand, the

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by him would have no right to officiate in

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. The need for the act arose after the English Church and government agreed to consent to the establishment of the

Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem The Anglo-Prussian bishopric in Jerusalem was an episcopal see founded in Jerusalem in the nineteenth century by joint agreement of the Anglican Church of England and the united Evangelical Church in Prussia. Background As a result of more than ...

.Meyer (1914) The Act received the

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on 5 October 1841 and remains, , largely in force.

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* (

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) *Meyer, P. (1914)
Jerusalem, Anglican-German Bishopric in
, '' Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge''

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* United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1841 Church of England legislation Christianity and law in the 19th century 1841 in Christianity Law about religion in the United Kingdom {{UK-statute-stub