The documents given here are an attempt to chart the course of the Episcopal succession as it has been preserved in the Church of England. The ‘successio sedis’ or succession of Bishops in their dioceses has of course been published many times and is a matter of general knowledge (it is published, for example, in most editions of Crockford’s Clerical Directory); this study however gives the ‘successio manuum’ or succession of consecrators, which I believe has nowhere before been set out in this form. for more click here
