NEW ARCHBISHOPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1942, Page 4

NEW ARCHBISHOPS

CANTERBURY AND YORK NOMINATIONS BY THE KING. DR. WILLIAM TEMPLE BECOMES PRIMATE. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, February 22. The King .has nominated the Archbishop of York, Dr. William Temple, to succeed Dr. Cosmo Lang as Archbishop of Canterbury, and . the Bishop of Winchester, Dr. C. F. Garbett, to succeed the Archbishop of Y’ork. Dr. William Temple succeeds to , a position formerly occupied by his father. For many years he has been in the forefront of the leaders of the Church in the United Kingdom, and has the reputation of being a brilliant thinker and a man who speaks his mind. He has been a prolific writer. Born in the Episcopal Palace at Exeter in 1881, he went to school at Rugby, where his father had formerly been headmaster. Passing on to Oxford, he obtained a “double-first” and became president of the Union. He turned out to be a typically excellent Balliol undergraduate. To a deep and solid foundation of learning he added a taste for philosophical inquiry. His appetite for reading was unlimited. His tough, burly figure was seldom, seen in the streets of Oxford without some formidable volume under his arm. After taking his degree, he was elected a Fellowship at Queen's College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1908 and priest in 1909. In 1910 he was made headmaster of Repton, and four years later was , appointed rector of St. James s, Piccadilly. It was his first experience of parish work, and it coincided with the outbreak of war. He resigned from St. .James’s in 1918. On the recommendation of Mr Lloyd George, in 1919, he was appointed to a canonry at Westminster Abbey. He was subsequently appointed Bishop of Manchester, and in 1928 became Archbishop of York. The Rt. Rev. Cyril Forster Garbett was born in 1875 and educated at Portsmouth Grammar School, Keble College, and Cuddesdpn College, Oxford. He was assistant curate of Portsea in 1900-09, and then for 10 years was vicar of that diocese. In 1919 he became Bishop of Southwark, and held that office till 1932. In 1915 he became honorary canon of Winchester and also rural dean of Portsmouth, Ten vears ago he became Bishop of Winchester and in 1937 was appointed Clerk of the Closet of the King. He has written a number of books on Church and social problems. RESOLUTE LEADER BISHOP HOLLAND’S TRIBUTE TO DR. TEMPLE. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “It is a cause of great congratulation to the Church that it should have as its leader in its greatest moment in recent centuries one who combines in a rare degree the faculties of intellectual ability and magnetic leadership,” said the Bishop of Wellington, Rt. Rev. H. St. Earbe Holland, when he was invited last night to comment on the appointment; of Dr. Temple as Archbishop of ’Canterbury. Bishop Holland is a personal friend of the new archbishop. “During these years of war;” continued the Bishop, “Dr. Temple has set out his views as one who is ready to speak fearlessly and to give the Church a leadership not bound by the traditions of the past, but moving forward to the new world with determination that the Great Christian values which the Church represents could be endowed with new vigour, and interpreted for the good of mankind. “His gift of leadership is largely due to his faculty for friendship,’and any assembly in which he took part the sound of his reverberating and infectious laugh would invariably be heard. The quickness of his mind was revealed to me on one occasion when I asked him how in the midst of a bishop's life he succeeded in reading every theological work produced by any Christian scholar of importance. He replied, ‘You see, I have to go up to London from Manchester on Church business twice a week. The journey takes four hours each way, and that enables me to tackle two 400-page volumes.”