Thomas Carlyle (Scottish lawyer)

Thomas Carlyle ( born July 17, 1803 in Dumfries, Scotland, † January 28, 1855 ) was Scottish lawyer and apostle of the Catholic Apostolic Church.

He was born in King's Grange near Dumfries, Scotland. After studying law at Edinburgh University, he was admitted to the Scottish Law Bar Association as a lawyer in 1824.

From 1830 he was a dispute with the Scottish revival of Edward Irving in contact. He belonged to the Presbyterian Church in Edinburgh, whose pastor, Walter Tait, 1833 was removed from office and the first Catholic Apostolic church of Scotland founded. Also in 1833 was used as one of the seven deacons in his ward Thomas Carlyle of Irving.

A little later, he served as an evangelist and assistant to the elders of the Edinburgh community. On 1 May 1835, he was named in Tait's house through the pillars of the Prophet Catholic Apostolic Church Taplin as an apostle. 1836 he was working as a territory of the tribe of Simeon, which corresponds to Northern Germany, assigned. In 1852 he took over from Apostle John Owen Tudor Poland, part of the tribe of Ephraim, and from 1854 he worked in Norway and Sweden, the tribe of Gad.

On 25 July 1850 he ordained the priest Heinrich Geyer and Friedrich Wilhelm Schwarz. In the same year he sealed the later apostle of universal Christian apostolic mission Wilhelm Carl Louis Preuss, and set it apart as a priest from 1854.

Apostle Carlyle died on January 28, 1855 at the age of 51 years in Albury due to illness. Two days earlier advised the London borough of a special prayer service. He was considered one of the strongest and most influential apostles. During his time in Northern Germany he could seal over 1,200 souls, and ordain 12 priests and 33 angels. The Berlin community was also the largest congregation of all Catholic Apostolic Church. He also wrote many writings, which were also widely used in Germany.

• Catholic Apostolic clergyman
• Briton
• Scotsman
• Person ( Dumfries )
• Born in 1803
• Died in 1855
• Man