ABSTRACT
Bishop Reginald Stephen Copleston (1845-1925) served as Bishop from 1876-1902. After a distinguished period as Fellow and tutor at St John’s College, Oxford, where he sympathized with the High Church Oxford Movement, he was consecrated as Bishop in Westminster Abbey on Holy Innocents Day, 1875, at the age of 30 (Balding 1922: 59; Beven 1946: 94-5). A few days later he sailed for Sri Lanka.
