OBITUARY

Hokitika Guardian, 10 December 1929, Page 6

OBITUARY

BISHOP CLEABY. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. His Lordship Bishop Henry W. Cleary died this afternoon at the Motor -Mise'ricordiae Hospital at 2.43 o’clock. The late Bishop Cleary had been unconscious since 5 a.m. on Friday, and his death had been hourly expected. There will be Solemn Requiem Mass at Auekland’Cathedral on Thursday at 10 a.m. His Lordship Bishop James Michael Liston, Coadjutor- Bishop of Auckland, and titular Bishop of Olympus, succeeds the late Dr Cleary as Bishop of Auckland. A QUIET END. AUCKLAND, Dec. 9. About 2 p.m., anxious watchers around His Lordship's bed noticed that the end would not he 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, hut just when the end was thought to have 'been reached, Bishop Cleary opened his eyes, and with A seeming smile of recognition olf those who - surrounded. Jiis bed, he gently breathed his iast at 2.13 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 he taken privately to-mor-row afternoon to St. Patrick’s Cathedral for the lying-in-state. The Solemn Requiem Mass, to he attended by the children of the Catholic Schools and Orphanages, will he held on Wednesday morning, and the Funeral Mass will take place on Thuu.dny morning. At the express wisli of the late Bishop, the interment will take pbve in the cemetery at Panmure, where there are buried many former Priests o* the diocese. There also, at the late Bishop’s request, will he no flowers in connect) m with the obsequies. Archbishop Bedwood and Archbishop O’Shea (Wellington), Bishop UrodaL (Christchurch), and Bishop Whyte. (Dunedin) will take part in the various services. Rt. Rev. Doctor J. M. Liston, who has been coadjutor bishop to the late Bishop Cleary since 1920, automatically becomes Bishop of Auckland. The late Right Reverend Bishop Cleary was seventy years of age, having been burn at Ehniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland, in 1859. His' motli,er was convert to the Catholic (faith. Educated first at St. Aidan’s Academy, Ennisc-orthy, lie next studied at Ireland’s premier seminary, Mavnooth College, and completed his ecclesiastical studies at St. Sulpice Seminary, Paris, and at the Papal University College of the Appolinare, Borne, obtaining the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Forty-four years ago he was ordained to the priesthood. Bishop Jas. M. Liston, titular Bishop of Olympus, who its Coadjutor, now becomes Bishop of Auckland, it comparatively young Bishop, is a New Zealander. and a native of Dunedin, whose parents were West Coast pioneers, and 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 responsible post of Rector ol Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, the first Catholic secular ecclesiastical seminary in New Zealand, which office he discharged with great ability till 1920, when he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Auckland.