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Feb. 26 A Boy is mad 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-Boycott, a coasing 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 succeding engagements which last until Holy Innocents Days. 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 populate. Henry VIII made a Declaration that Boy Bishops should be elected, at on thrones and rebeals 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 and ordinary schoolboy: in them he receives from his fellow pupils, the respect that his tempors high office requires. Photo shows wearing his cope and mitre, the black gloves and the ring, 13-year-old Timothy Oewn-Burke, the Boy Bishop sits on the throne with his chaplain standing by him holding The Crozier

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