ARCHBISHOP O’SHEA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 4

ARCHBISHOP O’SHEA

EPISCOPAL SILVER JUBILEE TOMORROW (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. There will be no formal celebrations to mark the episcopal silver jubilee of the Most Rev) Thomas O’Shea, S.M., p.D„ Metropolitan of the Province of New Zealand and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Wellington, which falls tomorrow, his Grace having asked the clergy, religious, and laity of the arch-diocese to reserve their efforts and concentrate on the Catholic Congress to be held in Wellington early in February, 1940. The occasion will be celebrated by a Pontificial Jubilee Mass of Thanksgiving at St Mary of the Angels Church, Boulcott Street, Wellington, at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning. Bishops Liston, Auckland, Brodie, Christchurch, and Whyte, Dunedin, will be present, and the occasional sermon will be preached by the Very Rev Father D. Hurley, S.M., Provincial of the Society of Mary. There will be a full attendance of the clergy of the archdiocese. Archbishop O’Shea will leave Auckland on August 25 to pay a visit to Rome, anticipating the visit “ad limina,” which he would be bound to pay in 1940. During his absence the Rt Rev Monsignor Connolly, of the Basilica, Hill Street, will act as administrator of the archdiocese.