EAST ANGLIA DIOCESE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20039, 22 September 1930, Page 2

EAST ANGLIA DIOCESE.

♦ 1300 TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. (paoH bua owx: cpehespoxusxt.) . . LONDON, August 15. Archbishops and Bishops, from ait over the Empire participated in the 1300 th anniversary of the foundation of the Diocese of East Anglia on August 13th. The service was held in Norwich Cathedral • The Archbishop of Canterbury was supported by the Archbishops of Wales, Armagh, Brisbane, the West Indies, New Zealand, and Sydney, as well as the Metropolitan of India. More than fifty Bisnops wejre present.

'lt was a service." writes the special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph, "which, with appropriate liturgical pomp, to the accompaniment of beautiful music most exouisitely rendered, carried the mind back to dim and distant ages, whose virile faith produced with a labour of love those glorious ecclesiastical memorials of which this mightv cathedral is so distinctive an example. ''Tho memory of the vigorous Bishop de Losinga, who laid the foundation eight ana a half centuries ago, is today perpetuated in this vast church, which, in its general plan, remains less alteoed than any-other Norman church of first rank. To v quote from the Commemoration of Benefactors read in the course of the service by the Dean (Dr. Craiiago): "To-day remembrance must very specially be made of our founder, Herbert de Losinga, buried before his high altar in 1119. To him we owe the conception of one of the most glorious funes in Christendom."

It was five centuries earlier that St. Felix of Burgundy established what was really the dioceco of East Anglia, of which the See is now Norwich.

Conditions of the Day.

.•supplementing the scarlet of the episcopal robes in the presbytery was a splash of colour furnished by those of Mayors from neighbouring towns. Ihey, with many municipal councillors, were seated within a pace of the choir stall.* occupied by the canons and high Cathedral officials—the very stalls in which centuries ago the divine praises were chanted by Benedictine monks. For Norwich Cathedral, of course is a monastic church. The order of servico as conducted by the Dean and the Vice-Dean (Re?. J. Allan Bell) was distinctive to tho occasion by the inclusion of tho 'Commemoration of Benefactors.' It opened with the hymn We *¥ our - God ' an<J dosed with '0 God, our help in ages past.' \ feature of the very fine music was "a setting of the Te Deum Laudamus specially by the Cathedral organist (Dr Heathcote Statham) in which tho essential trimphant note was magnificently emphasised."