The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . advised conformity to the meagre andstarved ideals of the then accepted orthodoxy. Apparentlyhe deemed this course a safe one, where there could, it appears,be little other guidance for those who still had any faith, exceptin the conventionalities of what had become ecclesiasticalcustom. He saw that the interpretation which individualopinion in its practical rejection of Christian ordinances wouldread into faith was likely to be no more than a new expressionof early and medi
The cathedral church of Chichester; a short history & description of its fabric with an account of the diocese and see . advised conformity to the meagre andstarved ideals of the then accepted orthodoxy. Apparentlyhe deemed this course a safe one, where there could, it appears,be little other guidance for those who still had any faith, exceptin the conventionalities of what had become ecclesiasticalcustom. He saw that the interpretation which individualopinion in its practical rejection of Christian ordinances wouldread into faith was likely to be no more than a new expressionof early and mediaeval heresies. Mathias Mawson (1740 1754) was bishop after Hare;and then Sir William Ashburnham (1754-1799) cameto the diocese and occupied the see for forty-five years, thelongest episcopate since the foundation of the see. ^ Before the close of the eighteenth century John Buckner(1799-1824) succeeded Ashburnham. Stephens Diocesan History, p. 233.^ Stephens, p. 245. THE DIOCESE AND SEE. In 1S24 Robert James Carr, and in 1831 EdwardMaltby, were appointed to the see. William Otter succeeded (1836-1840). During his. 5. B. Bolus S- Co., photo. s. Clements chapel, and tomb of insHor durnford (see p. 83). episcopate the Diocesan Association was founded in 1838 tohelp the clergy and laity of the diocese to provide themselveswith better schools to increase the means of instruction and 122 CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL. ministration, to restore or enlarge their churches and schools,and to provide new ones when they had the opportunityafforded by sufficient means. Bishop Otter and Dean Chandlersucceeded in establishing a theological college in the city. Philip N. Shuttleworth (1840 1842), Ashurst TurnerGilbert (1842-1870), and Richard Durnford (1870-1895)were succeeded by Ernest Roland Wilberforce, thepresent bishop, who was translated to the see from Newcastlein 1895. Dp:ans of Chichester. Odo, 1115. Richard, 1115. Matthew, 1125. Richard, 1144. John de Greneford, 1150. Jordan de Meleburn, 1176
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