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Feb. 26 A Boy Becomes A Bishop: Kneeling reverently before the altar, 12-year-old Timothy Owen-Burke answers the interrogation of the Rev. Desmond Morse-Boycott (who is a cousin of Mr. Winston Churchill). The bishop's chaplain (runner-up in the voting for the bishop) stands by him with the order of service. The chaplain is Stewart Mount aged 13. A Boy Is Made A Bishop - For 23 Days: Thirteen-year-old Timothy Owen-Burks was made a Boy Bishop according to the centuries-old-custom and ceremonies, at St. Mary-of-the-Angel Song School, Addlestone, Surrey, famous as a boarding school producing choristers known as Angela, and run by the Rev. Desmond Morse-Boycott, a causing of the Premiere. Annually the boys elect one of their number -he must however be able to get into the vestments, have a good voice and be of the very best character - for the ceremony and succeeding engagements which last until Holy Innocents Day. His only reward other than a spiritual one, is a golden guinea, and that of his chaplain or runner up in the voting, half-a-guinea. The origins of having Boy Bishops at Christmastime is ancient. The ceremonies and subsequent engagements were very elaborate and surrounded by veneration by the populace. Henry VIII made a Declaration that Boy Bishops should be elected, sit in thrones and reveals that he probably delivered a Sermon. As early as 1262, St. Paul's Cathedral records show that there was a Boy bishop. Out of his vestments, the bishop is just an ordinary schoolboy: in them he receives from his fellow pupils, the respect that his temporary high office requires

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