SODOR AND MAN

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SODOR AND MAN , the name of the bishopric of the church of England which includes the Isle of Man and adjacent islets. In 1154 the diocese of Sodor was formed to include the Hebrides and other islands west of

Scotland

(Norse .Sudr-eyjar, Sudreys, or southern isles, in distinction from Nordr-eyjar, the northern isles of Orkney and

Shetland

SHETLAND, or ZETLAND

) and the Isle of Man. It was in the archdiocese of Trondhjem in Norway. (The connexion of the Isle of Man with Norway is considered s.v. MAN, ISLE oF). A

Norwegian

NORWEGIAN

diocese of Sodor had been in existence previously, but its history is obscure, and the first union of Man with it in 1098 by Magnus Barefoot is only traditional. The

Norwegian

NORWEGIAN

connexion was broken in 1266, and in 1334 Man was detached from the Scottish islands. The cathedral of Sodor was on St

Patrick

PATRICK, SIMON (1626–1707)
PATRICK, ST

's Isle at Peel (q.v.), and it is possible that the name Sodor being lost, its meaning was applied to the isle as the seat of the bishop. The termination " and Man " seems to have been added in the 17th century by a legal draughtsman ignorant of the proper application of the name of Sodor to the bishopric of Man. By the latter part of the 16th century the terms Sodor and Man had become interchangeable, the bishopric being spoken of as that of Sodor or Man. Till 1604 the bishops invariably signed themselves Sodorensis; after that date and till 1684, sometimes Soderensis and sometimes " Sodor and Man," and after 1684 always " Sodor and Man." The see, while for some purposes in the archdiocese of

York

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, has its own convocation. The bishop sits in the

House

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HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Lords, but has no vote.
See A. W. Moore, History of the Isle of Man (London, 1900).

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