Editing Henry Phillpotts (section)

=== Diocese of Durham ===
Philpotts married in October 1804 and in 1805 became [[vicar]]. He was appointed [[chaplain]] to [[Bishop Middleham]], County Durham, in the succeeding year. For twenty years he was chaplain to [[Bishop of Durham|Bishop]] [[Shute Barrington]], in the [[Diocese of Durham]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Phillpotts, Henry |volume=21 |pages=408–409}}</ref>

In 1808 he received his next preferment, being collated by the bishop to the large and important parish of [[Gateshead]]—within a year his rapid advancement continued with the collation to the ninth [[prebendal stall]] in [[Durham Cathedral]].
<blockquote>"That at the age of 31 he should already have held four livings and a prebendal stall testifies to the regard in which he was held by his [[Diocese|diocesan]], and the usefulness of his marriage connection."</blockquote>

He now resided for a considerable part of the year at Durham, and on the [[chapelry]] of [[Margaret the Virgin|St Margaret]] in the city becoming vacant, he was presented to it by the [[Dean (religion)|Dean]] and [[Chapter (religion)|Chapter]] on 28 September 1810. On 30 December 1815 Philpotts received yet further preferment, being collated by the bishop to the second [[Canon (priest)|canonry]] in the Cathedral, the [[emolument]]s of which were considerably higher than those of the ninth. This he held for five years, at the end of which period his literary and controversial abilities brought him into advancing prominence.

After holding the rich living of [[Stanhope, County Durham|Stanhope]], Durham, from 1820, and the Deanery of [[Chester cathedral|Chester]] from 1828, he was consecrated [[Bishop of Exeter]] in 1831, holding with the [[Episcopal see|see]] a residentiary [[canonry]] at Durham<ref name="EB1911"/> which he secured permission to hold along with his bishopric, one of the last cases of the benefice [[In Commendam|in commendam]] by which [[medieval]] and later bishops had often profited.

Philpotts recognised the need to look after his family, extensive as it was&nbsp;— he had 18 children. When he was offered the bishopric in Exeter he realised that the stipend (£3,000) was not enough to support his family, so he asked to retain his parish of Stanhope, in Durham (as a non-resident), which would be worth an additional £4,000 a year. As a compromise he was instead offered the canonry at [[Durham Cathedral|Durham]] which was worth a similar amount, and was a post which he continued to hold until his death.{{Cn|date=December 2024}}