A GREAT CHURCHMAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1938, Page 5

A GREAT CHURCHMAN

DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP JULIUS. END OE NOTAELE CAREER. The death has occurred of Archbishop C. Julius, formerly Primate of New Zealand, in his ninety-first year, a Press Association message from Christchurch reports. . The archbishop, who was universally loved, was the first archbishop of the Anglican Communion in New Zealand. He was an outstanding figure in the religious and social life of Canterbury, and one whose benign influence extended far outside that province. Born in Richmond, Surrey, in 1847, Archbishop Julius was educated at Blackheath Preparatory School, at King’s College, London, and at Worcester College, Oxford. He graduated as a bachelor of arts in 1869, as master of arts in 1871 and took .the degree of doctor of. divinity in 1893. He was ordained deacon in 1871 and priest in 1872. He was curate at St Giles’s, Norwich, from 1871 to 1873. In that year he succeeded to the cure of South Brent, in Somersetshire, and in 1875 became vicar of Shopick. He was appointed vicar of Holy Trinity, Islington, North London, in 1878, and six years later he first went to Australia to take up an appointment as incumbent of Christ Church Pro-Cathedral at Ballarat. He was also Archdeacon of Ballarat, a position he held at the time of his election to the See of Christchurch in 1889. In 1920 Cambridge University honoured him with the degree of doctor of laws. In 1922 Bishop Julius succeeded Bishop Nevill as Primate of New Zealand, after being a priest of the Anglican Church for 53 years, for 35 of which he held an Episcopate. Archbishop Julius announced his retirement to the Diocesan Synod of 1924 and actually retired from office on April 20, 1925. On his retirement in 1925 Archbishop Julius was given a public, farewell by the city in the King Edward Barracks. More than 6000 people attended, representing every church and almost every public body of Christchurch. The archbishop’s retirement did not mean his giving up active participation in affairs of the diocese. He was constantly in demand as a preacher both at the Cathedral and in other churches. His personality and his power of dramatic and outspoken speech won him a great number of friends and admirers outside his own churches as well as within it.

Archbishop Julius was married in 1872 to the daughter of Colonel M. J. Roylandson, who died in 1918, and is survived by two sons and five daughters, the lattei - beipg Mrs A. S. Elworthy, of Holme Station, Timaru, Mrs P. Elworthy, of Gordon’s Valley. South Canterbury. Mrs A. Hansell, wife of Archdeacon Hansell, of Wellington, Mrs Ethel Wilson, whose husband, the late Rt Rev Cecil Wilson was Bishop of Bunbury from 1917 to 1937, and Miss Ada Julius, of Christchurch. The elder son, Sir George Julius, is chairman of the Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. The younger is the Very Rev J. A. Julius, Dean of Christchuch. The funeral of Archbishop Julius will take place on Saturday afternoon. The archbishop's body will be brought tomorrow to the Christchurch Cathedral, to lie there until the service. On the following day watch will be kept by the Sisters of the Community of the Secred Name, which was established in Christchurch many years ago by the archbishop’s bringing out Mother Editli as its first mother superior. The archbishop will be buried at Linwood Cemetery.