The Right Reverend

Right Reverend

The Right Reverend is a style applied to certain religious figures.*In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain it applies to bishops except that The Most Reverend is used for archbishops .*In some churches with a...

 Eyre Chatterton, DD

Doctor of Divinity

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, FRGS (1863–1950) was an eminent Anglican author who served as a Bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 in India from 1903 to 1926.

He was born in Monkstown, County Cork

Monkstown, County Cork

Monkstown is a village in County Cork, Ireland, in the old barony of Kerrycurrihy. It lies 9 miles southeast of Cork city on the estuary of the River Lee, facing Great Island and looking onto Monkstown Bay....

 on 22 July 1863 and educated at Haileybury

Haileybury and Imperial Service College

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 and Trinity College, Dublin

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. He was ordained by Bishop Lightfoot

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Joseph Barber Lightfoot was an English theologian and Bishop of Durham, usually known as J.B. Lightfoot....

 in 1887, and began his career with a curacy

Curate

A curate is a person who is invested with the care or cure of souls of a parish. In this sense "curate" correctly means a parish priest but in English-speaking countries a curate is an assistant to the parish priest...

 at Holy Trinity, Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees

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. He was Head of the Dublin University Mission to Chhöta Nagpur

Chota Nagpur States

The Chota Nagpur States were a group of princely states at the time of British India, located on the Chhota Nagpur Plateau in the present-day Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Orissa...

 from 1891 to 1900 when he returned briefly to England to be Curate

Curate

A curate is a person who is invested with the care or cure of souls of a parish. In this sense "curate" correctly means a parish priest but in English-speaking countries a curate is an assistant to the parish priest...

 of St Mary Magdalene, Richmond, Surrey. In 1902 it was announced he would become the inaugural Bishop of Nagpur

Bishop of Nagpur

The Bishop of Nagpur exercises episcopal leadership over the Diocese of Nagpur of the Church of North India.-Succession:This is an incomplete list of people who have served as the Bishop of Nagpur.-See also:*Christianity in India...

, a post he held for 23 years. He died on 8 December 1950.

Works

• The Story of Fifty Years’ Mission Work in Chhöta Nagpur, 1913
• With the Troops in Mesopotamia, 1916
• History of the Church of England in India since the Early Days of the East India Company, 1924
• The Church’s Youngest Daughter; India Through a Bishop’s Diary, 1935
• Alex Wood, Bishop of Nagpur, A Memoir, 1939
• The Anglican Church in India, 1946