NEW ARCHBISHOP.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 519, 28 May 1909, Page 7

NEW ARCHBISHOP.

'.. .— 6-— : ■■-.. SYDNEY SEE. AROHDEACON WRICHT ELECTED. 3 ' '-THE SYNOD-UNANIMOUS.'-' / lnt,T«i,i!ah»rii— i'ltgss association—corimont.l , (Rec. May 28, 1.10 a.m.) ■'■■■''- ; 1 -..''■■ ' Sydney, May 27. The Ven. J. O. Wright, M.A., Archdeacon '-.- 'of Manchester, lias been elected Archbishop ;,■ of Sydnoy in succession.'to the Into Archbishop Saumaroz-Smith. The two orders in . tho Diocesan Synod—clergy; and laity—vot- . ing separately, wero unanimous, and the aggregate ■ vote of the whole Synod was also unanimous. ..--... 0. : -■ — •' /\.DISTINGUISHED CAREER. Arohdcacon Wright is intimately associated : with all branches, of church work in Manchester. Ho is chaplain to the lay readers Of the has been.a prime mover in''the . diocesan missionary festivals, is on many.diocesan committoes, and has taken an active Interest in.hbme missionary work.' A writer in , England said last February that there was : "hardly any branch of public church work in whioh lie had-not already had good training."' As a citison he has taken a keen interest in tho industrial and other social questions, and ,in a comparatively recent sermon in the Manchester Cathedral ho showed his power in that direction. Ho is chairman of tho Manchester • 'and Salford Hospital Sunday Fund . He,was j ; socrctary of the subjects committee of the last Church Congress.- '• f . '• After winning the langworthy scholarship ot - tho Manohestor Grammar School he becamo " postmastor "; at, Morton College, Oxford, a 'scholarship'of. £S0 per annum, and only open a, to bo won by those .under 19 years of'age. He (' : took a good-degree in.the- University (8.A., : ■ 1S81.; M.A.,'lß37),'and was ordained as curato f . for ICibworth. He was there three years, and 3 then beoamo curato and "lecturer," a sign of , his power as .1 speaker, to tho Bradford Parish Church. When only about 31 he was elected by the trustees as vicar of .Ulverston, in the 1 ■ diocese of; Carlisle, '.where- he had two .curates , under hini. Two years, later ho was elected by ' trustees as vicar of St. George's, Leeds, an important parish in the north of England, The ohuroh. will seat 1400. , In 1904 he was" offered ,by„the Dean and Chapter of Manchester .tho position of canon residentiary and the parish , of St. George's. Hulme, with a church seating • IfOO persons, which he Prom thoro in January last he was'ralsed by. Bishop Knox to 2 • be•'• Archdeacon of Manchester. ■ Tho urcha deaconry has 837 boneficea and about 600 clergy, I .and in England is second only in importance to a the' Archdeaconry of L-mdon. Ho 16 46 or 47 ! years of age. --' SYDNEY SEE.-THS PRIMACY. . If Archdeacon Wright accepts, the appoint- • .ment, and if his election is confirmed by the . bishops of'the province, or a majority of I. them, ho will become Metropolitan of the Province of New South Wales and Archbishop of tho Metropolitan See.of Sydney. He will also be eligible for election as Primate of Australia, ~ but hs he will bo anew man in Australia, it : . ie probable that, this position will be given to' either the Archbishop of Melbourne (Dr.H. L.. I 'Clarke) or' tho Archbishop of Brisbane (Dr, j Donaldson). I Tho .Diocese ;of Sj-dney is situated on the I eastern-coast-of-New South Wales, and measures about 200/ miles from - north to south, t; and 100 miles from.east to west. It comprises t but a sniijll portion of tho' original Bishopric > of Australia, which was formed, in 1536, and ini eluded Now Zealand and Tasmania, having . previously been an Archdeaconry of. the Dio- , coso of Calcutta'. New Zealand, wib detached . in/1841, and Tasmania in 1842. In 1847 tho Diocese of ■ Australia 'was again divided, the Sees of Sydney, .Newcastle,'. Adelaide, and Melbourne being formed.'and the Bishop of Aus-tralia-was created,-by .letters''patent, Bishop ; of Sydney, and Metropolitan of Australia and '.Tasmania. -The See has siheb been greatly 1 reduced by tho foundation of the Diocese of < Goulburn in 1803, and of Bathurst in-1869.