ART. II.-INTERESTING AND CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT BISHOPS; BEING “DOTTINGS OF DESULTORY READING."

"I entered a memorandum in my pocket-book."—Guardian.

"Old fashioned economists will tell you never to pass an old nail, or an old horseshoe, or buckle, or even a pin, without taking it up; because, although you may not want it now, you will find a use for it sometime or other. I say the same thing to you with regard to knowledge. However useless it may appear to you, at the moment, seize upon all that is fairly within your reach. For there is not a fact, within the whole circle of human observation, nor even a fugitive anecdote, that you read in a newspaper, or hear in conversation, that will not come into play sometime or other: and occasions will arise when they will, involuntarily, present their dim shadows in the train of your thinking and reasoning, as belonging to that train, and you will regret that you cannot recall them more distinctly."

WILLIAM WIRT.

The interesting coincidence of the intrusting, for a second time, of the two most important and influential of our Dioceses, to the Episcopal oversight of two brothers, first the Onderdonks and then the Potters, for which office also, two other brothers, the Vintons", were candidates, will render acceptable to our readers the following "desultory dottings" concerning like facts in other times, all of which may be added, in some sort, to our "Curiosities in Literature." A small. portion of this Article appeared in the "Banner of the Cross,' some years ago, from the pen of the present writer, with the addition of a contribution of the same kind, with which he was honored by one of our present Bishops.

I. BROTHERS IN THE EPISCOPATE..

We need not here mention the relationships in the original Apostolate, being better known than the like among the Successors of the Twelve.

1. Gregory Nyssen, of Cappadocia, was the younger brother of the famous St. Basil, Archbishop of Cesarea, A. D., 372.

*The Rev. Dr. Hawks, brother of the Bishop of Missouri, has been elected Bishop once or twice, but declined.

He is said to have made that recension of the Nicene Creed, in the General Council of Constantinople, afterwards universally adopted, and now used.

2. St. Chad, Bishop of Lichfield, (A. D. 667,) the Saxon Saint, whose memory is duly honored by the beautiful Cathedral at Lichfield, was a brother of Cedd, or Ceadda, Bishop (A. D., 658,) of London, or the East Angles. On occasion of St. Chad's consecration by Wina, Bishop of Wessex, we find the first act of communion between the British and AngloSaxon Churches, two Welsh Bishops having assisted in the consecration. Beside a brother in the Episcopate, St. Chad had also two other brothers, celebrated Priests.

3. St. Melus, a nephew of St. Patrick, and Bishop of Ardagh, (A. D., 454,) had a brother, Senach, or Secundin, Bishop of Dunshaghlin, now Meath. This was formerly an ArchiEpiscopal See, in token of which the Bishops of Meath have always been accorded the title, "Most Reverend," to this day.

4. St. Melucho, or Melchus, another brother of the preceding, was his successor in the See of Ardagh, (A. D., 488.)

5. Seffridius, of Chichester, (A. D., 1125,) had the happiness of seeing a brother in the Episcopate, and of consecrating him with his own hands; that brother afterwards becoming Archbishop of Canterbury.

6. Gilbert Foliot, (A. D., 1148,) Bishop of Hereford, and afterwards of London, who made an attempt to recover to his See of London its ancient metropolitical dignity, had a brother, Robert Foliot, who succeeded him in the See of Hereford, in A. D., 1174, and afterwards had a nephew in the same See.

7. Christian O'Morgair, Bishop of Clogher, (A. D., 1126,) was brother of Malachi O'Morgair, Archbishop of Armagh, (A. D., 1134,) "vir literatus et discretus."

8. Isidore Hispalensis succeeded his brother Leander, as Bishop of Seville, (A. D., 595,) and had another brother, Fulgentius, Bishop of Carthagena. This Isidore must be distinguished from Isidore, Bishop of Corduba, (A. D., 425,) and from Isidore, of Pelusium, (A. D., 412,) with whom he is often confounded; and this Fulgentius must be distinguished from another of the same name, who was born at Carthage, and was Bishop of Ruspe, in Africa, not long before the other flourish

ed in Spain. The African Bishop was one of the most learned, pious and influential theologians of his day, and specially wrote on the doctrines of grace, against the Arians and Pelagians.

9. Salonius, and Veranius, both sons of a Bishop, (A. D., 450,) were in the Gallic Episcopate, the former of Lyons, in which he succeeded his father.

10. Polychronius, Bishop of Apamea, (A. D., 420,) was brother of the heretical Bishop Theodore, of Mopsuestia. These were expositors of Sacred Scripture, who would not follow the interpretations of their predecessors without a good

reason.

11. Walter de Jorse, (A. D., 1306,) Primate of Armagh, had a brother, Thomas de Jorse, a Cardinal Bishop, and another brother, Roland de Jorse, was his successor in the See of Armagh, (A. D., 1311.)

12. Maurice M'Carwill, (A. D., 1306,) Achbishop of Cashel, was brother of John M'Carwill, Bishop of Cork, (A. D., 1302.)

13. Alexander Lawater, or Lauder, of Dunkeld, (A. D., 1440,) was brother of the Bishop of Glasgow, William Lauder, who died A. D., 1425.

14. James Stewart, of Moray, (A. D., 1459,) was brother of David Stewart, his successor in this Bishopric. The latter built the great tower of Spynie Castle, "a mighty strong house," called, to this day, David's Tower.

15. Patrick Graham, Bishop of St. Andrew's, (A. D., 1466,) was step-brother and successor of Bishop James Kennedy, a prelate who rendered himself no less illustrious by his virtues, than he was by his noble birth; the king, James III., addressed him as "avunculo nostro carissimo."

16. James Chisholm, of Dunblane, (A. D., 1486,) was brother of his successor, William Chisholm, (A. D., 1527,) who himself was succeeded by a nephew of the same name.

17. Campeggio, (Lorenzo,) the famous Cardinal Bishop, (A. D., 1512,) had a brother Thomas, a Bishop. The Cardinal was legate of Clement VII. to the German princes in the matter of Luther. He was Bishop of Salisbury, Eng., in 1524, and a learned Canonist, employed by King Henry VIII. in the matter of his divorce.

18. Peter Paul Vergerio, (A. D., 1545,) Bishop of Capo d' Istria, and Nuncio of the Pope, had a brother in the Episcopate, who with him went over to the Reformation.

19. John Hamilton, (A. D., 1545,) Bishop of Dunkeld, was a brother of James Hamilton, Bishop of Argyle, (A. D., 1548,) who sided with the Reformation.

20. John, and Olaus Magnus, of Sweden, the to last Papal Archbishops of Upsala, the former from 1533 to 1544, the latter from 1545 to 1588, were brothers, papal legates, exiles from their See, writers of historic works, and both buried in the church of St. Peter, at Rome.

21. Michael Boyle, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, (A. D., 1619,) and Richard Boyle, Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, (A. D., 1620,) and Archbishop of Tuam, (A. D., 1638,) were brothers, the latter of whom had a son in the Episcopate, who succeeded him in the See of Cork.

22. George Abbot, Bishop of Lichfeld, (A. D., 1609,) Bishop of London, (A. D., 1610,) Archbishop of Canterbury, (A. D., 1611,) was an elder brother of Robert Abbot, and consecrated him to the See of Sarum, in 1615. He preceded Archbishop Laud, in the chief See, but was different in character and government, being over-remiss in discipline, of Puritan tendencies, and accustomed to browbeat the inferior Clergy, while he was taxed with unfriendliness to those of his own function.

23. Peter Walenburg, and Adrian Von Walenburg, (about A. D., 1660,) were brothers, born at Rotterdam, and who lived at Cologne; the first was Bishop of Mysia in partibus, the other was Bishop of Adrianople in partibus, and Suffragan to Mayence.

24. Hon. James Talbot, (A. D., 1758,) " Vicar Apostolic”*

* Papal Bishops, holding foreign Sees in partibus infidelium, and "Vicars Apos tolie" of the same grade, are appointed by the Bishop of Rome as his agents, whose commissions are revokable at his will. Through them the Pope has acted in England, since the Reformation, as its quasi-Bishop, until lately, when, commissioning them as Bishops in ordinary, he gives up his personal Episcopal jurisdiction over Englishmen, holding these Bishops, in ordinary, as responsible to him as before.

Though not allowed by government to assume the titles of English Sees, they create others, assuming the name of some extinct Episcopate, as, e. g., Chalcis, Adrumede,

in England, was brother of the Hon. T. Talbot, "Vicar Apostolic," (A. D., 1766.)

25. William Sheridan, (A. D., 1681,) Bishop of Ardagh and Kilmore, was a brother of Patrick Sheridan, Bishop of Cloyne, (A. D., 1679.)

26. James Rose, of Glasgow, (A. D., 1726,) was brother of the deprived prelate, Alexander Rose, Bishop of Moray, (A. D., 1687,) and who (from A. D., 1687 to 1719,) presided over the See of Edinburg, and over the whole Scottish Church. This latter prelate outlived all his brethren, and all the English Bishops likewise, who had been possessed of Sees before the Revolution. He studied divinity under Dr. Gilbert Burnet, at Glasgow, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, in England. 27. The Drs. Gibson, William and both of the Roman intrusion in England, and "Vicars Apostolic," the elder in 1780, and the younger brother in 1790, are little known, as having made no mark.

28. Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, (A. D., 1715,) of Hereford, (A. D., 1723,) of Sarum, (A. D., 1723,) and of Winchester, (from A. D., 734 to 1761,) was brother of John Hoadly, Bishop of eighlin, (A. D., 1727,) Archbishop of Dublin, (from A. D., 1729 to 1742,) and of Armagh, (until A. D., 1747.) The former is well known as eminent for talents and eloquence, but who greatly lowered the authority and dignity of the Church.

29. William Cleaver, of Chester, (A. D., 1787,) of Bangor, (from A. D., 1800 till 1806,) and of £t. Asaph, (till 1815,) was the brother of Euseby Cleaver, (A. D., 1789-1809,) Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin, and Archbishop of Dublin, (A. D., 1809– 1820.

Amosia, Melipotamus, &c., and thus they are titular Bishops of Dioceses which they have never visited. They are lieutenants and Vicars of an Italian Bishop, sacrificing their ancient dignity as "Vicars of Christ," while intruding into the Sees of our Bishops who are Vicarii Filii Dei, and equals of the Bishop of Rome. The practical effect of their appointment in England, as elsewhere in partibus infidelium, is a practical insult to the nation and the Church; a public declaration that the English Church is no Church at all; invalidates all its acts, and transfers the Primacy of Canterbury to the Bishop of Rome, as universal head.