Name and Surname. POPES. Accession. Death. April 1, 1605 Ap. 26, 1605 Jan. 22, 1621 ...... Official Designation. Michael Angelo Innocent XIII. } Conti..... July 8, 1623 Aug. 6, 1623 July 29, 1644 Vincent Maria Orsini Benedict XIII.. May, 29, 1724 Feb. 21, 1730 Laurence Corsini .. Clement XII... July 12, 1730 Feb. 6, 1740 1 By this convocation the canons of the Church of England were authorised. 2 Then were enacted the Irish articles incorporating those of Lambeth. 3 This convocation received the thirty-nine Anglican articles as the terms of conformity in Ireland. This synod ranked Calvin among heretics. Name and Surname. Accession. Official Designation. Death. Clement XIV.. Ganganelli.... Benedict XIV.. Aug. 17, 1740 May 2,5 1758 Charles Rezzonico. Clement XIII.. ...... 1769 ...... 1774 1758 ...... 1769 Castiglioni Pius VIII..... Maurus Cappellari.. Gregory XVI.. Feb. 2, 1831 1823 1829 ...... 1829 APPENDIX. A circumstantial and exact Account (by Dr. Maclaine) of the Correspondence that was carried on, in the years 1717 and 1718, between Dr. William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, and certain Doctors of the Sorbonne, at Paris, relative to a Project of Union between the English and Gallican Churches. Magis amica veritas. WHEN the famous Bossuet, bishop of Meaux, laid an insidious snare for unthinking protestants, in his artful Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of Rome, the pious and learned Dr. Wake unmasked this deceiver; and the writings he published on this occasion gave him a distinguished rank among the victorious champions of the protestant cause. Should any person, who had perused these writings, be informed that this "pretended champion of the protestant religion had set on foot a project of union with a popish church, with concessions in favour of the grossest superstition and idolatry 1,” he would be apt to stare; at least, he would require the strongest possible evidence for a fact, in all appearance so contradictory and unaccountable. This accusation has, nevertheless, been brought against the eminent prelate, by the ingenious and intrepid author of the Confessional; and it is founded upon an extraordinary passage in Dr. Mosheim's Ecclesiastical History; where we are told, that Dr. Wake "founded a project of peace and union between the English and Gallican churches, founded upon this condition, that each of the two communities should retain the greatest part of their respective and peculiar doctrines?." |