Church Temporalities Act 1833

Church Temporalities Act 1833
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long titleAn Act to alter and amend the Laws relating to the Temporalities of the Church in Ireland.
Citation3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 37
Territorial extent Ireland
Dates
Royal assent14 August 1833

The Church Temporalities Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 37), sometimes called the Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833,[n 1] was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which undertook a major reorganisation of the Church of Ireland, then the established church in Ireland.[3] The Act suppressed ten bishoprics and merged the corresponding dioceses, with effect from the next vacancy.

  1. ^ "Statute Law Revision Act 2007, Schedule 1". Irish Statute Book. pp. Schedule 1, Part 4. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Index: Church Temporalities (Ireland) Act 1833". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 21 November 2014.
  3. ^ Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England. 1783-1846 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 468.


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