AN INDIAN BISHOP
TO VISIT WELLINGTON.
Bishop ,V. S. Azariah, the first native Indian consecrated a bishop of the An-, glican Church, will be a passenger by the Ormuz, due at Sydney on the Bth of May, and from Sydney he will come on to New Zealand, arriving at Wellington on the 15th prox. Bishop Azariah is now chief pastor of the Telugu Church, in South India. The Christian community in the Telugu country, reckoned as 19,000 in 1871, rose to 144,000 in 1881 to 220,000 in 1901, 342,000 in 1911, and has now reached a considerably higher figure. The official title of the visitor is Bishop of Dornakal. Besides attending the church congress and the Wellington missionary exhibition, he will visit each diocese and will speak in all the large centres. .
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 81, 5 April 1923, Page 8
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132AN INDIAN BISHOP Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 81, 5 April 1923, Page 8
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