Bishops of Dunedin - Anglican Diocese of Dunedin, Allen Howard Johnston, Samuel Tarratt Nevill, William Alfred Robertson Fitchett (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Anglican Diocese of Dunedin, Allen Howard Johnston, Samuel Tarratt Nevill, William Alfred Robertson Fitchett, Isaac Richards, Walter Wade Robinson. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Diocese of Dunedin is one of seven dioceses of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. The Diocese covers the same area as the provinces of Otago and Southland in the South Island of New Zealand. Area 65,990 km, population 272,541 (2001). Anglicans are traditionally the third largest religious group in Otago and Southland after Presbyterians and Roman Catholics. Description of Arms: Gules between a cross saltire argent, four starts argent on the fess point a Bible. The diocese was established in 1869. The seat of the Bishop of Dunedin is St Paul's Cathedral, Dunedin. The diocese has a total of 33 parishes. The adaption of 'Local Shared Ministry' has been a strategy where local people are ordained to serve in a parish which cannot afford to support fulltime professional clergy. The diocese includes Anglo-Catholic, broad and 'evangelical' parishes. The first person named as Bishop of Dunedin was Henry Lascelles Jenner. At the request of Bishop George Augustus Selwyn Primate of New Zealand in 1866 Archbishop Charles Thomas Longley of Canterbury selected Jenner for Dunedin. Jenner was consecrated in 1866 by royal licence as 'Bishop of the United Church of England and Ireland in our colony of New Zealand'. Jenner was consecrated together with Suter (candidate as 2nd Bishop of Nelson) by Archbishop Longley, the Bishop of London Bishop Tait (later Archbishop Tait, of Canterbury) and the bishops of Bristol and Gloucester. In 1867 Jenner embarked on a fundraising tour in England for his new diocese. Jenner was an ethusiastic Anglo-Catholic. When news of ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3894493