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He was educated at Cambridge University and ordained in 1701. He was rector of St. Peter-le-Poor, London, from 1704 to 1724. His participation in controversy began at the beginning of his career, when he advocated conformity of the religious rites from the Scottish and EnglishThe Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and is the mother branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion as well as a founding member of the Porvoo Communion. Christianity was planted in Britain in the first or second c churches for the sake of union. He became a leader of the low churchLow church is a term of distinction in the Church of England, initially designed to be pejorative. During the series of doctrinal and ecclesiastic challenges to the Established church in the 16th and 17th centuries, commentators and divines began to refer and found favor from the WhigThis article is about the British Whig party. For information about the American Whig party, see United States Whig Party. For information about the Liberian Whig party, see Whig (Liberia). For a long time in British politics, the two main parties were th party.

He battled Francis AtterburyFrancis Atterbury ( 1662 February 22, 1732), was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. He was born at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, where his father was rector. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he beca, spokesman for the high churchHigh church is a term used in Protestant Christianity in general, and churches associated with the Anglican tradition in particular, in relation to those congregations that continue, with modifications, much of the ritual and pomp associated with the Roma group and ToryThe term Tory derives from the Tory Party the ancestor of the modern UK Conservative Party. To this day it is often used as a shortened alternative for Conservative. A similar usage for Tory exists in Canada to describe the Conservative Party. It was also leader on the subject of passive obedience and non-resistance (i.e. obedience of divines that would not involve swearing allegiance or changing their eucharistic rites but would also not involve denunciation of the Established ChurchIn English history, the Established Church is the Church of England, the church which is established by the Government, supported by it, and of which the monarch is the titular head. The Church of Scotland at one time held an analgous position with regard practices). The House of CommonsIn a bicameral parliament of a Westminster System, the House of Commons has historically been the name of the elected lower house. The Commons generally holds much more power than the upper house (the senate or House of Lords). The leader of the majority, dominated by Whigs, recommended him to the Queen, and he became rector of Stretham in 1710. When George I acceded, he became chaplain to the king and made bishop of Bangor in 1716.

In 1717, his sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" provoked the Bangorian controversy. He was then translated three more times, taking up different bishoprics. He maintained that the eucharist was purely a commemorative act without any divine intervention (i.e. was purely consubstantial). During his time as bishop, he rarely even visited his dioceses and lived, instead, in London, where he was very active in politics.