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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/James_Chapman_(bishop) > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/James_Chapman_(bishop).md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chapman_(bishop) > Source revision: 1344607536 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific_prefix = [The Right Reverend](/source/The_Right_Reverend) | name = James Chapman | title = Bishop of Colombo | image = James Chapman D.D. 001.jpg | church = [Anglican Church of Ceylon](/source/Church_of_Ceylon) | appointed = 1845 | began = 7 November 1845 | ended = 1861 | birth_date = 1799 | death_date = {{Death year and age|1879|1799}} | alma_mater = [Eton College](/source/Eton_College); [King's College, Cambridge](/source/King's_College%2C_Cambridge) | nationality = [British](/source/British_people) | profession = clergyman | religion = [Anglican](/source/Anglican) | diocese = Diocese of Colombo }} '''James Chapman''' (1799–1879) was the first [Anglican Bishop of Colombo](/source/Anglican_Bishop_of_Colombo), in [British Ceylon](/source/British_Ceylon) (now [Sri Lanka](/source/Sri_Lanka)), serving from 1845 to 1861.{{Cite web |url=http://www.stcmount.sch.lk/history/colhis1.html |title=S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia |access-date=2009-01-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090311133255/http://www.stcmount.sch.lk/history/colhis1.html |archive-date=2009-03-11 |url-status=dead }} == Life == He was educated at [Eton](/source/Eton_College) and [King's College, Cambridge](/source/King's_College%2C_Cambridge), where he graduated [Bachelor of Arts](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) (BA) in 1823, and [Cambridge Master of Arts](/source/Master_of_Arts_(Oxbridge_and_Dublin)) (MA Cantab) in 1826. He was made deacon in Ely in 1824 and ordained priest the next year in Chichester.{{Acad|id=CHPN819J|name=Chapman, James}} He became a Fellow of King's College, one of the Masters of Eton, and Evening Lecturer at Windsor. In 1834, he was appointed to the Rectory of [Dunton Wayletts](/source/Dunton_Wayletts), in Essex, the patronage of which was with King's College. On 7 November 1845, he was consecrated as the first Bishop of Colombo at [St Peter's Church, Colombo](/source/St_Peter's_Church%2C_Colombo),{{cite book|title=Tombs and Monuments in Ceylon|author=Lewis, John Penry|date=1913|place=Colombo|publisher=H. C. Cottle}} and received the degree of [Doctor of Divinity](/source/Doctor_of_Divinity) (DD) from his University. In 1851, Chapman founded [S. Thomas' College](/source/S._Thomas'_College%2C_Mount_Lavinia) when it was in Mutwal before it relocated to its present site in Mount Lavinia{{Cite web |url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/06/18/fea06.html |title=Reminiscences of a teacher |access-date=2013-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050828082207/http://www.dailynews.lk/2004/06/18/fea06.html |archive-date=2005-08-28 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2002/12/04/fea07.html |title=Hundred and twenty fifth anniversary : St. James Church, Mutwal |access-date=2013-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041027160231/http://www.dailynews.lk/2002/12/04/fea07.html |archive-date=2004-10-27 |url-status=dead }} Under medical advice because of his ill-health, he resigned the See of Colombo in 1861, and was elected a Fellow of Eton College, and was presented by the college in 1863 to the Rectory of [Wootton Courtenay](/source/Wootton_Courtenay), Somerset.{{Church Times | title = Church News | archive = 1863_12_24_372 | issue = 47 | date = 24 December 1863 | page = 372 | accessed = 11 February 2025 }} In 1868, he was made Prebendary of Warminster in [Wells Cathedral](/source/Wells_Cathedral).{{Church Times | title = Church News | archive = 1868_08_15_305 | issue = 289 | date = 15 August 1868 | page = 305 | accessed = 11 February 2025 }} He was the author of occasional Charges, Sermons and Journals. During the mid-1860s, he undertook several bishop's duties (including ordinations of deacons/priests and consecrations of church buildings) in the [Diocese of Exeter](/source/Diocese_of_Exeter).{{Church Times | title = Church News | archive = 1864_12_31_419 | issue = 100 | date = 31 December 1864 | page = 419 | accessed = 26 December 2019 }}{{Church Times | title = Consecration of St Peter's Church, Newlyn, Penzance | archive = 1866_06_02_175 | issue = 174 | date = 2 June 1866 | page = 175 | accessed = 26 December 2019 }}{{Church Times | title = Church News | archive = 1867_09_28_337 | issue = 243 | date = 28 September 1867 | page = 337 | accessed = 26 December 2019 }} In the late 1860s, when [Robert Eden](/source/Robert_Eden%2C_3rd_Baron_Auckland), [Bishop of Bath and Wells](/source/Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells), was ill, Chapman also assisted him as [Coadjutor Bishop of Bath and Wells](/source/Coadjutor_Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells).{{Church Times | title = The late Bishop Chapman | archive = 1879_11_21_731 | issue = 878 | date = 21 November 1879 | page = 731 | accessed = 26 December 2019 }} He died in 1879.''Church Bells'' (July 17, 1875) W. Wells Gardner, Publisher, London[http://anglicanhistory.org/india/chatterton1924/15.html A History of the Church of England in India], anglicanhistory.org ==See also== *[Church of Ceylon](/source/Church_of_Ceylon) *[Anglican Bishop of Colombo](/source/Anglican_Bishop_of_Colombo) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/province.cfm?ID=Y1 The Church of Ceylon (Anglican Communion)] * [http://www.anglicancommunion.org/provincialnews/ceylon/client/news/client_news_index.cfm Anglican Church of Ceylon News] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chapman, James}} Category:1879 deaths Category:19th-century Anglican bishops in Asia Category:People educated at Eton College Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Category:Sri Lankan Anglican bishops Category:Place of birth missing Category:Place of death missing Category:1799 births Category:Anglican bishops of Colombo Category:Fellows of Eton College {{SriLanka-bio-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [James Chapman (bishop)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chapman_(bishop)) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chapman_(bishop)?action=history)). 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