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Charles Corfe
Anglican bishop in Korea (1843–1921)
Charles John Corfe (1843 – 20 June 1921)[1] was the inaugural Anglican Bishop in Korea from 1889[2] to 1904.
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Province | Canterbury |
See | Seoul |
Appointed | 1889 |
Installed | 29 September 1890 |
Term ended | 1904 |
Successor | Arthur Turner |
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Ordination | 1866 |
Consecration | 1 November 1889 |
Rank | Bishop |
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Born | 1843 |
Died | 20 June 1921 |
Nationality | English |
Denomination | Anglican |
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Corfe was one of the four "Bible Clerks" educated as an undergraduate at All Souls College, Oxford.[3] After graduating[4] he had a brief spell teaching at St. Michael's College, Tenbury before being ordained in 1866.[5] For the next 22 years he was a Royal Naval Chaplain.[6]
On All Saints' Day (1 November) 1889[7] he was consecrated by Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, as missionary bishop of Chosun (Korea, then spelled Corea) in Westminster Abbey[8] and was awarded an honorary DD on his appointment in Korea.[9] In 1890, he established the Church of St Michael and All the Angels in Seoul and started three hospitals, two in Seoul and one in Jemulpo (Incheon). Until 1891, he was also the bishop of Manchuria before the area was converted to the Chinese diocese of North China. In 1897, he baptized the first Anglicans and performed the ritual in Korean.[8] He tendered his resignation to the Archbishop of Canterbury shortly before St James's Day (25 July) 1904, when he wrote a letter to his diocese; by 16 September, the Archbishop had accepted Corfe's resignation and named Arthur Turner his successor.[10] On his retirement he published an account of his pioneering efforts[11] entitled The Anglican Church in Corea.[12]
- History of the college Archived 4 June 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 320.
- "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
- "Chapter II. English Church Mission to Corea History, 1889-1910", in Trollope, Mark Napier. The Church in Corea (London: Mowbray, 1915/Milwaukee: The Young Churchman, 1915; accessed at Project Cantebury, 5 March 2021)
- Wickeri, Philip L. (2 February 2017), "Anglicanism in China and East Asia, 1819–1912", The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume III, Oxford University Press, pp. 318–337, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199699704.003.0015, ISBN 9780199699704, retrieved 20 July 2018
- "Corea. Resignation of Bishop Corfe". Church Times. No. 2173. 16 September 1904. p. 354. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 5 March 2021 – via UK Press Online archives.
- Being documents ... issued by authority during the episcopate of the first Bishop of the Church of England in Corea between 1889 and 1905: Seoul, Hodge & Co, 1907
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New title | Bishop in Korea 1889 – 1904 |
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