[Magdalen] From +Georgia

[Scott Knitter]

I think it's a little British and/or old-fashioned: a bishop takes the
name of his/her diocese as a surname--or others just refer to him/her
that way. Further fun comes from English bishops of dioceses with
traditional Latin names/abbreviations: +Ebor for York, +Cantuar for
Canterbury, +Sarum for Salisbury. So the bishop of Salisbury known as
David can sign himself +David Sarum. I've seen a hymnal's preface
signed Derwyn Toronto.

But I've often seen the shorthand you're referring to: +Chicago for
Jeffrey Lee, or +Cantuar for Justin Welby.

OO...then there's +Dunelm for Durham, IIRC.

There's the story of a House of Bishops meeting at which the bishops
were lined up to sign in, and the bishop of Western New York got to
the book and saw the previous entries: +William Albany, +James
Chicago, etc., and he picked up the pen and wrote +Buffalo Bill.

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ginga, I thought the same thing!  I've never seen that designation of a bishop as +[Diocese]




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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA