THE KING has been pleased to order a Congé d'Elire to pass the Great Seal of the Realm empowering the College of Canons of the Cathedral Church in Winchester, to elect a Bishop of the See of Winchester, the same being void by the resignation of the Right Reverend Timothy John Dakin, B.A., M.Th., Ph.D., lately Bishop thereof; and His Majesty has been pleased to recommend to the said College of Canons the Right Reverend Philip Ian Mounstephen, M.A., Diocesan Bishop of Truro, to be by them elected Bishop of the said See.