John Dowden (1840 – 1910) was an Irish cleric and ecclesiastical historian. Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The Irish people ( Irish: Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaeil) are a Western European Ethnic group who originate

He was born in Cork in 1840 as the fifth of five children by John Wheeler Dowden and Alicia Bennett. His famous brother was the poet, professor and literary critic Edward Dowden. Edward Dowden ( May 3, 1843 – April 4, 1913) was an Irish Critic and Poet. Although his father was Presbyterian, John followed his mother by becoming an Anglican, although he attended both churches in his youth. Presbyterianism is a family of Christian denominations within the Reformed branch of Protestant Western Christianity Anglicanism is a tradition of Christian faith Churches in this tradition either have historical connections to the Church of England or have similar beliefs When he was sixteen he became a student at Queen's College, Cork as a medical student. University College Cork ( UCC) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, the university is located in Cork. John began encountering health problems, problems which made it difficult to pursue his origin career. In 1858, while contemplating a religious career, he enrolled at Trinity College, Dublin. Trinity College Dublin ( TCD; Irish Coláiste na Tríonóide Baile Átha Cliath; Latin: Collegium Sacrosanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae He graduated in 1864 and was ordained as a deacon, moving to Sligo. Sligo (disambiguation Sligo ( (ˈslaɪɡoʊ "sly-go" Irish ˈɕlʲɪɟəx is the County town of County Sligo in Ireland. In the same year he married, wedding a woman named Louisa Jones, by whom he would eventually father six children. John was ordained as a priest in 1865, and moved through a variety of positions slowly rising in prestige. John continued his studies and received a BD from Trinity College.

John was also becoming a rising scholar. In 1886 was elected as the Anglican Bishop of Edinburgh, which position he held until his death in 1910. The Scottish Episcopal Church (Eaglais Easbaigeach na h-Alba is a Christian denomination in Scotland and a member of the Anglican Communion, although it The Bishop of Edinburgh is the Ordinary of the Scottish Episcopal Diocese of Edinburgh. Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting As a scholar, he was author of many great works, including Medieval church in Scotland : its constitution, organisation and law (1910) and Bishops of Scotland : being notes on the lives of all the bishops, under each of the sees, prior to the Reformation (1912). Both were published posthumously. The former, although extremely dated, is still regarded as one of the main starting points in medieval Scottish ecclesiastical history, and the latter remains to this day one of the most comprehensive guides to medieval Scottish episcopal prosopography. In historical studies, prosopography is an investigation of the common characteristics of an historical group whose individual biographies may be largely untraceable by means

References

• Strong, Rowan, "Dowden, John (1840–1910)", in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 accessed 27 Nov 2006
• Watt, D. E. R. , "Scotland: Religion and Piety", in Steve Rigby (ed. ), A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages, (Oxford, 2003), pp. 396-410 (info on p. 396)

Religious titles
Preceded by Henry Cotterill	Bishop of Edinburgh 1886-1910	Succeeded by George Henry Somerset Walpole

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