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Bangorian Controversy (băng-gô`rēən), religious dispute in the Church of England during the early part of the reign of George I. Benjamin Hoadly Hoadly, Benjamin (hōd`lē), 1676–1761, English prelate, center of the Bangorian Controversy within the Church of England.
..... Click the link for more information. , bishop of Bangor, Wales, delivered a sermon (1717) before the king in which he denied that the church had any doctrinal or disciplinary authority. Advocates of ecclesiastical authority (among them William Law Law, William, 1686–1761, English clergyman, noted for his controversial, devotional, and mystical writings. One of the nonjurors , Law was deprived of his fellowship in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and lost all chances for advancement in the church.
..... Click the link for more information. ) attacked Hoadly's position, and a sharp controversy ensued, in which some 50 writers participated and about 200 pamphlets were issued. Attacks on Hoadly in convocation, the church assembly, led the king to suspend that body in 1717; it was not allowed to meet again until 1852.