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    • Introductory Monograph (working draft)
    • Fact Sheet
    • Internet Encyclopedia
    • Jokes and Quotations
    • Study Center Images
  • News
  • Study Guide
    • Bibliography
    • Passages
    • Ethics
    • On the web
  • Life
    • Portraits and Paintings
    • Places
    • Chronology
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    • Outline of Argument
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    • Eighteenth Century
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Butler's Career in the Church
History of Bishop Joseph Butler's career in the Church.

1692 born, baptised, as a dissenter

1714 converts to Church of England

1718 B.A.

1718 ordained deacon, 1718

1718 ordained priest, 1718

1719-1725 preacher, the Rolls Chapel

1721 B.C.L.

1721-1738 reb. Yetminster Prima, Salisbury, III, vi. 91

1721-1725 Rector, Haughton-le-Skerne

1725-1740 Rector, Stanhope

1733 D.C.L.

1733-1736 chaplain to Lord Chancellor Talbot

1736-1737 Clerk of the Closet to Queen Caroline

1736-1738 Canon of 3rd preb., Rochester, III, iii. 64

1738-1750 Bishop, Bristol, III, viii. 13

1740-1750 Preb. Portpool, St. Paul's, London, III, i. 53

1740-1750 Dean , St. Paul's, London, III, i. 6

1746 Clerk of the Closet to George II

1750-1752 Bishop, Durham

Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham,  June 16,  Calendar from the Episcopal Church's 1979 Book of Common Prayer
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