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LANG
(Cosmo Gordon, Baron Lang of Lambeth, 1864-1945, Archbishop of Canterbury at the time of the Abdication)
Fine vintage postcard photo by the Rotary Photo Co., signed, ‘C. G. Stepney’
as Suffragan Bishop of Stepney, showing him head and shoulders, full face, in clerical robes, 5½” x 3½”, no place, no date, circa
William Cosmo Gordon Lang, 1st Baron Lang of Lambeth, was a Scottish Anglican prelate who served as Archbishop of York (1908–1928) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1928–1942). His elevation to Archbishop of York, within 18 years of his ordination, was the most rapid in modern Church of England history. As Archbishop of Canterbury during the abdication crisis of 1936, he took a strong moral stance, his comments in a subsequent broadcast being widely condemned as uncharitable towards the departed king. Beginning in 1890, his early ministry was served in slum parishes in Leeds and Portsmouth, except for brief service as Vicar of the University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford. In 1901 he was appointed suffragan Bishop of Stepney in London, where he continued his work among the poor. He also served as a canon of St Paul's Cathedral, London.
Item Date:
1903
Stock No:
42362
£150
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