ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1575, 30 April 1887, Page 3

ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD.

Dr Redwood, Roman Catholic Bishop of Wellington, has been appointed Archbishop of New Zealand, The news was cabled to Father McNamara, who has recently received the appointment of VicarGeneral of the colony. The following sketch of Dr Redwood’s career, taken from “ Men of Mark of New Zealand,” will be read with interest at the preient janotare Bight Rev. Francis Redwood, D.D., Roman Oatholio Bishop of Wellington, N.Z., was born on the Bth of April, 1839, at the Lower Hanyard, Fixall estate, Staffprdsbirc, England. He oame to the colony amongst the earlieet pioneers, under the auspices of the "New Zealand Company,” arriving at Wellington along with his parents and family of three brothers and four sisters, on board

the ship George Fife, Captain Pike, in 1842. The Bedwood family than settled on the Waimea Plains, about fourteen miles from Kelson, at a spot afterwards called "Stafford Place,’' where Francis spent his childhood np to the age ol eleven, and acquired a knowledge of the rudiments. Till he reached the age of fifteen he attended the excellent school at Nelson kept by the Venerable Father Garin, and there commenced the study of music and of the ancient and modern languages. Therefrom he went, by his own desire, to study for the church, to France, to the College of St. Ohamond, Loire, an excellent institution under the management of the Fathers of the Society of Mary, where he made very rapid progress, taking a number of prizes, and among them the first prize in Bhetorio for French discourses. While there he also became President of the College Literary Society, for which he wrote a number of essays in Latin and French, prose and verse. On the termination of hie classical course, he proceeded to the south of France, and at a place called Montbell, a few miles from Hyeres, he studied Philosophy and Divinity. On being sent by his superiors to Irelnd, he taught various branches of a classical course at St, Mary’s College, Dundalk, until his ordina tion to the priesthood, which took place at Maynooth, on June 6th, 1866. The following years he spent chiefly in Dublin as a Professor of Dogmatic Theology, until he was appointed by the Holy See to the Bishopric of Wellington, New Zealand. He was consecrated on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, 1874, by His Eminence, Cardinal Manning, then Archbishop of Westminster, at St. Ann’s, Spitalfields, London, and: shortly after arrived in the colony. Hare he has since had a very busy life, his charge being the largest Boman Catholic Diocese in New Zealand, comprising the whole of the former provinces of the colony with the exception of Otago and Auckland, which respectively form the other two Catholic dioceses. His Lordship has been more conspicuous as a preacher than as an author, bis published writings being a few lectures, sermons, the funeral orations of the late Archbishop of Sydney, Boger Bede Vaughan, and various articles to the Catholic periodicals of the day. He is a member of the Senate of the University of New Zealand, and is now in his 49th year.