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Feb. 26 A Boy Is Made A Bishop:L Twelve-Year-old Timothy Owen-Burke kneels before the altar of the little church in the grounds of St. Mary of the Angels Song School, during the ceremonies of enthronement. Angels make up the congregation. A Boy Is Made A Bishop For 23-days: Thirteen-year-old Timothy Owen-Burke 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 Chorister known as Angels and run by the Rev. Desmond, Morse-Boyett, a consing of the Premier Annually be boys elect one of their number - he must however be able to get into the vestments, here a good voice and be of the very best Characters - for the ceremony and succeeding engagement 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 Christmas time 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 on thrones and revelas that he probably delivered a sermon. As early as 1262, St.Pauls Cathedral records show that there was a boy bishopt. out of his vestments, the bishop is just an ordinary schoolboy. in them he receives from his fellow pupils, the respect that his tempora high office requires

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