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He was inspired during a 1950 visit to the Isle of Man, which forms the Diocese of Sodor and Man. [1] Awdry, a Church of England cleric, noted that while there was an Isle of Man, there was no island of Sodor. [note 2] He decided to create a fictional island of "Sodor" as the setting for his books. Sodor would be between England and the Isle of ...
As stated above, the Isle of Man was included in the Southern islands ("Sudreys"); the addition of "and Man" may have been made in the 17th century in ignorance of the proper application of the name of Sodor to the bishopric of Man. [12] It is suggested that St Patrick's Isle, being the location of the cathedral for the Norse diocese of Sodor ...
The Bishop of Sodor and Man is the Ordinary of the Diocese of Sodor and Man (Manx Gaelic: Sodor as Mannin) in the Province of York in the Church of England. The diocese only covers the Isle of Man. The Cathedral Church of St German where the bishop's seat is located, is in the town of Peel. St German's was elevated to cathedral status on 1 ...
Sodor and Man is the smallest diocese in the Church of England, overseeing 45 churches and 27 parishes. Born in 1966 in Kuala Lumpur to an Indian mother and British father, Bishop Hillas moved to ...
The Kingdom of the Isles, also known as Sodor, was a Norse-Gaelic kingdom comprising the Isle of Man, the Hebrides and the islands of the Clyde from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD. The islands were known to the Norsemen as the Suðreyjar , or "Southern Isles" as distinct from the Norðreyjar or Northern Isles of Orkney and Shetland .
Thomas Wilson (20 December 1663 – 7 March 1755) was Bishop of Sodor and Man between 1697 and 1755.. He was born in Burton in the Wirral, Cheshire, in December 1663.Having studied medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, he was ordained a priest in 1689.
The Archdeacon of Man (sometimes incorrectly referred to as Archdeacon of the Isle of Man) is a senior cleric second only to the Bishop of Sodor and Man in the Anglican Diocese of Sodor and Man (which comprises the Isle of Man). This is unusual, as in the Church of England deans are usually the senior priests of the diocese.
The diocese in its full form included the Outer Hebrides, most of the Inner Hebrides (including Iona, Skye, Raasay, Canna, Eigg, Coll, Tiree, Mull, Colonsay, Islay, Jura, Gigha – but not Lismore, Kerrera, Seil or Luing, all under the Bishop of Argyll), the Isle of Bute and the Isle of Arran, as well as the Isle of Man (Mann).