LAMBETH CONFERENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 August 1929, Page 5

LAMBETH CONFERENCE

N.Z. BISHOPS ATTENDING (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Aug. 23. Invitations to attend the Lambeth Conference in London in July next have been accepted by the Archbishop of New Zealand (Dr. A. W. Averill), the Bishop of Christchurch (Dr. Campbell West-Watson), the Bishop of Dunedin (Dr. I. Richards), the Bishop of Nelson (Dr. W. C. Sadlier), and the Bishop of Waikato (Rt. Rev. C. A. Cherrington). A fund was recently opened to send the Bishop of Aotearoa (Rt. Rev. F. A. Bennett) Home to the Conference, and the Bishop of Waiapu (Dr. AV. AV. Sedgwick) to whom Bishop Bennett is Suffragan, has signified his aproval. Even if the necessary finance were available, however, it now seems unlikely that Bishop Bennett will make the trip, as he has stated that he will find it very difficult to spare the time away from New Zealand that such a visit would entail. A Lambeth Conference takes place once every ten years., the last one having been .in 1920, when New Zealand was represented by the present Archbishop (Dr. Averill) the ex- Archbishop of New Zealand (Dr. Julius of Christchurch) and Dr. AV. AV. Sedgwick. Next year’s conference will be the first under the presidency of the new Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Cosmo Lang). Invitations to attend the conference have been issued to all the Bishops of the Anglican Communion, and to the Bishops of the Episcopal Church of America.