JUBILEE OF BISHOP
TRIBUTES TO SERVICE ASSEMBLY OF CLERGY HONOUR FROM VATICAN (Per Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The silver jubilee celebrations of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, the Most Rev. Dr. M. J. Brodie, began yesterday and will last for three days. All members of the hierarchy in the Dominion are attending, and more than 80 other clergy, including monsignors, attended from all parts of the Dominion at a solemn pontifical high mass which opened the celebrations. It was announced that Pope Pius XII had sent a letter of congratulation and had conferred on Bishop Brodie the dignity of Bishop Assistant to the Papal Throne. Bishop Brodie himself was the celebrant of the mass, for which the cathedral was specially decorated. In the afternoon, as part of the jubilee celebrations, the foundation stone of the new St. Mary’s Church, Manchester street, was laid by the Metropolitan of New Zealand, Archbishop O’Shea, before a crowd of about 5000 people, and in the evening solemn vespers were held, at which addresses congratulating the bishop on his achievements in his 25 years in the episcopate were presented by clergy and laity.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 24 February 1941, Page 7
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190JUBILEE OF BISHOP Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20488, 24 February 1941, Page 7
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