November 30
722 Episcopal ordination of Boniface as bishop by Pope Gregory II; he was sent out to evangelise the Germans.
1170 Thomas à Becket returns to Canterbury, crossing the English Channel, after a six-year exile in France. The knights of King Henry II got rid of him after four weeks.
1215 Innocent III closes the Fourth Lateran Council, which officially used the term “transubstantiation” for the first time, to refer to the Holy Eucharist.
1554 Roman Catholicism restored in England by queen Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
1729 Birth of Samuel Seabury, who later became the first bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church.
1737 Moravian missionaries of Saint Thomas island allow two Afro-Caribbeans, Andreas and Petrus, to attend the Lord’s Table, the first instance for the slave population.
1892 Demise of F. J. A. Hort, a Bible scholar, who had worked with B. F. Westcott on a critical edition of the Greek New Testament, which served as the foundation for almost all modern English translations of the New Testament.
1979 Aberi K. Balya, who had helped translate the Bible into the Runyoro/Rutooro language, became a bishop in the Church of England and established many schools, receives a State burial in Uganda.
Edited by: T. Chempilayil MCBS
Courtesy: https://studylight.org