TWO NEW BISHOPS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 5 April 1913, Page 9

TWO NEW BISHOPS.

KILLALOE AND LAHORE.. On February 19 a meeting of tho Bench of Bishops of the Church of Ireland was hold in Dublin to consider tho appointment of a Bishop to the united iliooeses of Killaloe and Kilfeuora and Clonfort and Kilmacduagh, in the .room, of tho Right ltev. CJiaries Dowse, who was recently elected Bishop of Cork.. The Archbishop of Dublin presided. At a, joint meeting of tho Synods of the United Dioceses in Limerick on February . 7 the names of Canon Hemphill . and Dean Grierson were submitted, but as neither of tho candidates obtained a majority of the lay and clerical vote ths matter was left in the hands of tho Senate. of Bishops. Tho Bishops elected Canon Thomas Sterling Berry, rector of Booterstown, County Dublin. . Canon Berry 'was educated at Dublin University, whero he took, a Classical Scholarship in 1874, and .'a Senior Moderatorship in Ethics and Logic in 1875. He is a Canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the author of "Christianity and Buddhism" (being the Donnellan Lectures delivered at Trinity College), and other works. Tho King has appointed tho Rev. Henry Bickersteth Durrant.to be.Bishop of Lahore, in succession to .Bishop Lefroy. The Rev. Henry Bickersteth Durrani belongs to a family which has been devoted, to foreign missionary work for at least three generations. His' grandfather 'was tho Rev. Edward Bickersteth, the wellknown secretary , of the Church-Mission-ary Society, and' his cousin was Dr. Edward.' Bickersteth, late Bishop of South Tokyo. Other members'of.his family are at present engaged in foreign missionary, work; Mr. Durrant was a Scholar-and Exhibitioner ,of Pembroke' Cambridge,l'and: graduated'ill 1893. with--a'sec-ond' class in'tho Classical Tripos.' ! He' was ordained by liis uncle, Dr. E. tt. Bickersteth, Bishop of Exeter,' in 1894, and after serving for two years in tho curacy of St. Mattliew, East Stonehouse, ho went to India as C.M.S. missionary at Agra. He has worked in the diocese of Ljicknow from 1897, with an'interval' for furlough' from 1908 to 1905. Ho was' appointed Hon. Canon of Lucknow and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Lucknow in 1912. ______