Joseph Cotton Wigram: Bishop of Rochester

by Nigel Scotland

During his two terms of office as Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston raised thirteen new clerics to the bench of bishops. These 'Palmerstonian bishops' often attracted criticism from their contemporaries as well as from later historians, but Joseph Cotton Wigram, who in 1860 was appointed to the See of Rochester, emerges from this biography as a most sympathetic figure, a significant Christian leader, visionary strategist, dynamic parish minister,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085244964X
• ISBN13: 9780852449646
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Gracewing
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"