LATE BISHOP CLEARY

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1929, Page 7

LATE BISHOP CLEARY

THE LAST MOMENTS - -- - > , FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 9.. Bishop Henry W. Cleary died this afternoon at the Mater Misericordia Hospital at 2.43 o’clock. About 2 p.m., anxious watchers around His Lordship’s bed noticed that the end would not be long delayed. Once more Bishop Liston, assisted by a large number of the clergy and religious, recited the Prayers for the Dying, and the Final Absolutions were imparted. , „ , , The breathing of the dying Prelate became quieter and quieter, but just when the end was thought to have been reached, Bishop Cleary opened his eyes, and, with a seeming smile of recognition of those who surrounded his bed, he gently breathed his last at 2.43 p.m. The funeral arrangements were finished late to-night. The body, dressed in the vestments of office, was removed to the Bishop’s House, Ponsonby, and it will be taken privately to-mor-row afternoon to St. Patrick’s Cathedral for the *lying-in-state. TJte Solemn Requiem Mass, to be attended by the children of the Catholic Schools and Orphanages, will be held on Wednesday morning, and the Funeral Mass will take place on Thursday morning. At the express wish of the late Bishop, the interment will take place in the cemetery at Panmure, where there are buried many former priests of the diocese. There also, at the late Bishop’s request, will be no flowers in connection with the obsequies. Archbishop Redwood and Archbishop O’Shea (Wellington), Bishop Brodie (Christchurch), and Bishop Whyte (Dunedin) will take part in the various services.

Rt. Rev. Doctor J. M. Liston, who has been coadputor bishop to the late Bishop Cleary since 1920, automatically becomes Bishop of Apckland.

DENOMINATIONAL TRIBUTES. (Special to “Star.") AUCKLAND, December 10. Warm tributes to the memory of Bishop Cleary, universally regarded as an outstanding personality in the ecclesiastical life of the Dominion, are paid in the Press by denominational leaders (1) the Primate, Archbishop Averill, (2) Rev. W. D. Morrison Sutherland, the Moderator of the Presbyterian Assembly, (3) Rev. E. Drake, Chairman of the Auckland Methodist District, (4) Rev. S. A. Goldstein, Jewish Rabbi. At the meeting of the Council of the Christian Congregations last evening, a resolution of sympathy with the Roman Catholic Church of New Zealand in the loss it had sustained through the death of Bishop Cleary, was carried, members standing in silence. It was decided to forward to the authorities of the Church a resolution embodying the sentiments of regret, and appreciation, voiced at the meeting. THE NEW BISHOP. Bishop James M. Liston, who as Coadjutor, now becomes Bishop of Auckland, is a native of Dunedin. His parents were residents of Hokitika in the seventies. Born in 1881, he was educated at Manly College, and at the Irish . College .at Rome. Ordained in 1904, he was six years later given the, post of Rector of Holy Cross College/ Mosgiel. In 1920 he was appointed 1 Coadjutor Bishop of Auckland. A special Requiem Mass will be celebrated at Greymouth, at St. Patrick’s Church, at 9 a.m. on Thursday.