[Magdalen] From +Georgia

[Christopher Hart]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
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.
> ​..
>
> 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.
>
> ​Another story along these lines relates to the sometime Bishop of Fond du
> Lac, Reginald Weller and his wife vacationing in Europe. As he signed a
> hotel guestbook "+Reginald Fond du Lac and Mrs. Weller", the clerk
> supposedly exclaimed, "Monsigneur is on holiday I perceive."
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>



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