Protestantism and churches in the East ; a tract for the times

Abstract

On Sunday, November 7th, 1841, the Rev. Michael ,Solomon Alexander, a convert from Judaism, was consecrated by the Most Rev. Dr. William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, " Bishop of the Protestant Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem," The consecration was performed in virtue of an Act of the British Parliament in the session lately closed;* and, by a mandate of her Majesty Queen Victoria, the jurisdiction of the new Protestant prelate was defined as embracing the countries of Syria, Chaldea, Egypt, and Abyssinia.

The competency of a British Parliament to erect Protestant episcopal sees in any part of her Majesty's dominions, and the sufficiency of a royal warrant to give the occupants the customary style and title of bishops in such dominions, will not here be called in question. The "Church of England and Ireland" is an establishment subject to the regulation of Parliament, and to the governance of the Sovereign as its supreme head under Christ.

It must be admitted, nevertheless, to be somewhat perplexing how such power of erection and nomination should be asserted with respect to a foreign land, wherein Great Britain has not an inch of territory...[Excerpt]