 This was before the secession which led to the establishment of a Reform congregation in that city.Chiefly owing to Tobias Theodores (professor of Hebrew at Owens College), Schiller-Szinessy was offered and he accepted the office of minister to the newly formed congregation.The Manchester Reform Synagogue was founded in 1857 under the name "Manchester Congregation of British Jews" by a group consisting mainly of German-Jewish immigrants.