[Magdalen] From +Georgia

[Marion Thompson]

Up here I remember John Montreal from my youth and more recently Terry 
Toronto.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 2/10/2017 4:50 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> 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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