See of Elmham
The See of Elmham was an Anglo-Saxon episcopal see of the Anglo-Saxon Church. The precise location of the Sees of the Anglo-Saxon period are, as the historian James Campbell put it "thorny questions hichhave long vexed the learned." The presence ...
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ecclesiastical jurisdiction
Ecclesiastical jurisdiction is jurisdiction by Clergy, church leaders over other church leaders and over the laity.
Overview
Jurisdiction is a word borrowed from the legal system which has acquired a wide extension in theology, wherein, for examp ...
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Bishop of Elmham
The Bishop of Norwich is the Ordinary (Catholic Church), ordinary of the Church of England Anglican Diocese of Norwich, Diocese of Norwich in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers most of the county of Norfolk and part of Suffolk. Th ...
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North Elmham
North Elmham is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.
It covers an area of and is located about north of East Dereham, on the west bank of the River Wensum. Including Gateley, the civil parish had a population of 1,4 ...
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South Elmham South Elmham (also Southelmham) is a location in north Suffolk which was an ancient deanery dating back to the 7th century when it was given to the Bishop of East Anglia. South Elmham constituted a "ferthing", i.e a quarter of Wangford Hundred. Thi ...
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Thomas Elmham
Thomas Elmham (1364in or after 1427) was an English chronicler.
Life
Thomas Elmham was probably born at North Elmham in Norfolk. He may have been the Thomas Elmham who was a scholar at King's Hall, Cambridge from 1389 to 1394. He became a Benedi ...