Crown Office
THE KING has been pleased to order a Congé d'Elire to pass the Great Seal of the Realm empowering the College of Canons of the Cathedral Church in Exeter, to elect a Bishop of the See of Exeter, the same being void by the resignation of the Right Reverend Robert Ronald Atwell, B.A., M.Litt., lately Bishop thereof; and His Majesty has been pleased to recommend to the said College of Canons the Right Reverend Michael Robert Harrison, Ph.D., M.A., Bishop Suffragan of Dunwich, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See.