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Irish Church Act 1869 detail and passage
The article reviews the Irish Church Act of 1869 as assented by the Queen, outlining disestablishment after 1871, the three Commissioners Monck Lawson Hamilton, and the transfer of church property to the Commissioners. It explains compensation, annuities, and governance, with rules on synods, ecclesiastical courts, and property disposal including schools burial grounds and glebes, ending with the surplus proceeds directed to relief of calamity and suffering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England and Ireland
Viscount Monck
Justice Lawson
G. A. Hamilton
House of Lords
Commissioners of Public Works
Regium Donum
Maynooth
Belfast College