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AN OPPORTUNITY MISSED? THE PROVISION OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR A NON-GRADUATE CLERGY: COMPARATIVE CASE STUDIES OF THE DIOCESES OF ST. DAVID'S AND SODOR AND MAN IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES NIGEL YATES 1. Introduction One of the objectives of the Protestant reformers in the British Isles was to improve the education and training of the clergy as a means of ensuring that they could be fairly described as pastor bonus. It was one in which they largely succeeded, not through the establishment of professional seminaries, but through the use of the ancient uni- versities in England, at Oxford and Cambridge, and Scotland at Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St. Andrews, and the establishment in Ireland of Trinity College, Dublin in 1592. By the eighteenth cen- tury the overwhelming majority of the clergy of the established churches throughout the British Isles, whether Anglican or Presbyterian, were graduates of these seven universities. There were only two Anglican dioceses - St. David's, covering most of mid- and west Wales, and Sodor and Man, comprising the Isle of Man - in which there were significant numbers of non-graduate clergy. This paper examines both the reason for this state of affairs and
Nederlands Archief voor Kerkgeschiedenis (in 2006 continued as Church History and Religious Culture) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2003
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