‘He stood for many years alone, he was long opposed, ridiculed, shunned, his doctrines were misrepresented, his little peculiarities of voice and manner were satirized, disturbances were frequently raised in his church or he was a person not taken into account, nor considered in the light of a regular clergyman in the church.’
-–as quoted in William Carus, Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon (New York: Robert Carter, 1848), p.39
2 January 1858: death of the Rt Revd Daniel Wilson, aged 79. He had served as fifth Bishop of Calcutta and first Metropolitan of India since 1832. His area of episcopal oversight included SE Asia: Singapore (visited five times) and even Australia (until 1835). #anglican #166years https://t.co/lgwOfagrpB
— Anglican Historical Society (@AustAnglican) January 2, 2024
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