Michael Alexander, the first appointee to the…

Michael Alexander, the first appointee to the Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem, arrives to take office in January 1842.

The British and Prussian Governments, as well as the Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Prussia, had entered into a unique agreement on 1841: the establishment of a Protestant Bishopric in Jerusalem.

Alexander, who had been proposed as the first Protestant bishop, had been appointed bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in Jerusalem, and was ordained a bishop on December 7, 1841, at Lambeth Palace.