COLONIAL BISHOPS HONOURED BY OXFORD.
A Convocation was held on July 1 in the Sholdonian Theatre, Oxford, at which honorary degrees wore conferred upon the Archbishop of York and a number of Bishops of oversea States and other Bishops. Thore was a large attendance of members of tho University and their friends. The presentations for the degree of doctor of divinity were made by the Regius Professor of Divinity, Dr. Ince. The degree of D.D. honoris causa was .conferred upon tho Archbishop of York, th.e Archbishop of < Molbourne, the Archbishop of. Torontq, tho Bishop of Durham, the Bishop Winchester, the Bishop of Bristol, the.Bishop, of Ely, Bishop Montgomery,. Dr. Graves (missionary Bishop of the American Church in Shanghai), Dr. M'Kim (missionary.-Bishop of the American Church in Tokio), tho Bishop of: Lahore, and the Bishop of Carpentaria. The honorary degree of D.Litt-. was conferred upon tho Bishop of Calcutta, Metropolitan-of. India. The presentation, having beommado, tho Vice-Chancellor congratulated Dr. Inco on attaining his eighty-third birthday, and on having hold the chair of Regius Professor of Divinity for thirty years. That day Dr. Ince hajl presented twclvo.jj'ewiidQciorsitoithe faculty wliich he had so'long'adorhed.' . ! " Tr
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 276, 14 August 1908, Page 3
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