BISHOP’S BURDENS

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 November 1934, Page 12

BISHOP’S BURDENS

EXPENSIVE RESIDENCES. The Bishop of Manchester’s statement that if he remains long in Manchester he will became bankrupt, once more draws attention to a burden which most clergy, from the Bishops to the humblest country parson, have to bear. This is the overlarge official residence (Writes “Peterborough’’ in the London “Daily Telegraph”). Dr. Warman maintains that his salary of £4,200 is eaten up by the calls made on his purse in this way. That has also been the recent complaint of the Bishops of London, Portsmouth and Guildford. The Bishop of Portsmouth said a few years ago that he finished his first year as bishop 1/6 down—and that he had lived in no greater style than he did in his first parish. A glance at the list of the Bishops with the largest salaries also shows that they all have palaces or large official residences to keep up. Archbishop of Canterbury (£15,000) Lambeth Palace. Archbishop of York (£9,000), Bishopthorpe, York. Bishop of London (£10,000), Fulham Palace. Bishop of Durham (£7,000), Auck]anj Castle Bishop of Bath and Wells (£5,000), The Palace, Wells. Bishop of Salisbury (£5,000), The Palace, Salisbury. Bishop of Oxford (£5,000), The Palace, Cuddesdon. Auckland Castle, for instance, is one of the largest buildings in the country, and quite impossible to keep up. Nor are the less well endowed bishoprics in better case. The Bishop of Exeter (£2,800) lives in a palace at Exeter, and the least well paid of all, the Bishop of Sodor and Man (£2,000) lives at Bishop’s Court —a large residence in the Isle of Man.