Boy bishop and his chaplain, Addlestone, Surrey

Feb. 26 Sealing The Boy Bishop: The boy bishop's chaplain, 13-year-old Stewart Mount, commences the laying on of hands on the Boy Bishop's head. All the while during the service, the congregation of Angels of the Song School, are singing or making the responses. 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 Choristers known as Angels and run by the Rev. Desmond Morse-Boyett, a consing of the Premier 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 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 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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