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The Correspondence of Alexander Goss, Bishop of Liverpool 1856-1872

The Correspondence of Alexander Goss, Bishop of Liverpool 1856-1872

Doyle, Peter

Hardcover

Series: Catholic Record Society: Records, Book 85

CatholicismGeneral World HistoryBritish History

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ISBN10: 090283228X
ISBN13: 9780902832282
Publisher: Catholic Record Society
Published: Oct 16 2014
Pages: 442
Weight: 1.90
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Collection of letters from the Catholic Bishop Goss vividly depict contemporary ecclesiastical life.

These letters, covering the years between 1850 and 1872, illustrate the complex issues facing the newly-established Catholic hierarchy in England and Wales. Bishop Alexander Goss was closely involved in the struggles to assert diocesan independence from Westminster and undue interference by Rome and was a determined upholder of his episcopal rights, strong and resolute almost to vehemence - the crozier, hook and point as Cardinal Manning claimed. At thesame time, as leader of the diocese with the largest number of Catholics in England and Wales, he faced the problems of serving the needs of a rapidly expanding population and of integrating a huge numbers of Irish migrants, without damaging the flourishing recusant traditions that had made Lancashire so important in the survival and growth of English Roman Catholicism. Whether he was writing on ecclesiastical politics, or his reasons for opposing the definition of infallibility, or the spiritual needs of his people, he wrote without restraint or reticence and his letters show us both his energy and administrative ability, and something of his complex personality.

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