Joseph Barclay

Joseph Barclay (* 1831 in Strabane, † October 23, 1881 in Jerusalem ) was a British theologian, missionary and Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem.

Life

Barclays family had Scottish roots. He first attended Trinity College in Dublin. After successful completion, he took a job in the Vicariate Bagnelstown, County Carlow; Here he developed a great interest in the London Society for Promoting Christianity.

As a missionary of that company, he first went to Constantinople to 1861 Opel. Mission trips led him to the Danubian provinces, according to Rhodes, and in other districts. He learned the language and studied Sephardic Hebrew. In 1861 he became head of the Christian church in Jerusalem, a position that energy and tact required to, neutralizing act on the dispute between the parties, their rivalries Barclay describes in his diary.

In 1865 he visited England and Ireland, was awarded the degree of Doctor of his university and got married. After his return he demanded a raise and entered in 1870, because the London company refused to comply with his request. He returned to England and took over Vicariate in Howe in Lincolnshire and St. Margaret, Westminster, until in 1873 Rector of Stapleford in the St Albans Diocese. In his spare time he used in 1877 to publish translations of single treatises of the Talmud with Prolegomena and notes.

Barclay held his sermons in Spanish, French and German. He also spoke Turkish and learned the Arabic language. In 1880 he received the degree of Dr. of the University of Dublin.

Bishop of Jerusalem

Died 1879 Samuel Gobat, the Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem. By Lord Beaconsfield Joseph Barclay of Queen Victoria has been proposed as a candidate for the succession. The Archbishop Archibald Campbell Tait Barclay consecrated in St. Paul a bishop. On January 15, 1880, he traveled to Jerusalem.

On April 5, 1880, he convened a conference of all European missionaries. He traveled to Beirut and inspected the donated by Mrs. Bowen Thompson British schools in Syria, which he found in good condition. He went to Egypt in November 1880 to the navigators to provide pastoral care and service in Suez and Port Said. But already on 23 October 1881, he died in Jerusalem. His wife, nee Andrew, returned with the children to her parents, she died four months after her husband.