Ecclesiastical Titles Act

United Kingdom [1851]

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role of Russell of Kingston

  • John Russell
    In John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

    …was already evident in the Ecclesiastical Titles Act of 1851, which Russell’s government had passed and which in effect was England’s defiance of the papacy.

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