THE ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2590, 26 August 1909, Page 5

THE ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY.

THE CONSECRATION CEREMONY.

PERFORMED BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

IJnithd Panes A»»ociATiON--CorYniant LONDON, August 24.

Archdeacon Wright has been consecrated Archbishop of Sydney. The ceremony was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Bishops of Salisbury and Manchester, and others, in the presence of a largo congregation.

Archbishop Wright was associated with all the branches of church work in Manchester. He was chaplain to the lay readers of the diocese, had been a prime mover in the diocesan missionary festivals, was on many dioceson committees, and had taken an active interest in Home missionary work. A writer in England, said, last February, that “there was hardly any branch of public church work in which he had not already had a good training.” As a citizen lie had taken a keen interest in the industrial and other social questions, and in a comparatively recent sermon in the Manchester Cathedral he showed his power in that direction. He was chairman of the Manchester and Salford Hospital Sunday Fund. He was secretary of the subjects committee of the last Church Congress. After winning the Langworthy scholarship at the Manchester Grammar school he became “postmaster” at Merton College, Oxford, a scholarship of £BO per annum, and only open to be won by those under 19 years of age. / He took a good degree in the University (B. A., 1884; M. A., 1887), and was ordained as curate for Kibworth. He was there three years, and then became curate ana a sign of his power as a speaker, to the Bradford parish church. When only about 31 he was elected by the trustees as vicar of Ulverston, in the diocese of, Carlisle, where he had two curates under him. Two years later he was elected by trustees as vicar of St. George’s, Leeds, an important parish in the north of England. The church will seat 1400. In 1904 he was offered by the Dean and Chapter of Manchester, the position of canon residentiary and the parish of St. George’s, Hulme, with a church seating 1700 oersons, which lie accepted. From there, in January last, he was raised by Bishop Knox to bo Archdeacon of Manchester. The archdeaconry has 337 beneficies, and about 600 clergy, and in England is second only in importance to the Archdeaconry of London. He is 46 or 47 years of age. Archbishop Wright is Metropolitan of the Province of New South Wales and Archbishop of the Metropolitan See of Sydney. He will also be eligible for election as Primate of Australia, but as ho h a new man in Australia, ?t is probable that this position wall be given to either the Archbishop of Melbourne (Dr H. L. Clarke) or the Archbishop of Brisbane (Dr Donaldson). The Diocese of Sydney is situated on' the eastern coast of New South Wales, and measures about 200 miles from north to south, and 100 miles from east to west. It condenses but a small portion of the original Bishopric of Australia, which was formed .in 1836, arid included New Zealand and Tasmania, having previously been an Archdeaconry of the Diocese of Calcutta. New Zealand was detached in 1841, and Tasmania in 1842. In 1847 the Diocese of Australia was again divided, the Sees of Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide, and Melbourne being forced, and the Bishop of Australia was created, by letters patent, Bishop of Sydney, and Metropolitan of Australia and Tasmania.. The See has since been greatly reduced by the foundation of the Diocese of Goulburn in 1863, and of Bathurst in 1869.