FIRST PRIMATE SINCE FIRST PRIMATE TO RESIGN

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6672, 27 July 1928, Page 7

FIRST PRIMATE SINCE FIRST PRIMATE TO RESIGN

AT.T. OTHERS HAVE DIED ! in office; United Press Association—By Electri* Telegraph —Copyright. Received Thursday, 9.0 p.m. •■■■-, LONDON, July 25. It is officially announced that DrDavidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, who is just over 80 years of age, will retire In November. The procedure connected with the acceptance of the Primate’s resignation has presented a pretty conundrum for the experts of the court of etiquette as no precedent Xhe only recorded instance of an Archbishop of Canterbury resigning is that of the first Archbishop, Saint Augustine himself. Continuous records exist since Cranmer showing that all the Primates died in office. Dr. Davidson’s tenure of office is the longest since. Cfanmer’s. 1 A GREAT OITDROHMAN. Eeceived Thursday, 9.20 p.m. LONDON, July 26. Publicists and newspapers of all shades of public opinion pay tribute to tho. Archbishop of Canterbury, It is generally assumed that the Archbishop of York; will succeed him. • The intriguing question now is who will follow the Archbishop of York. The “Daily Telegraph’’ says Dr. Davidson’s primacy must be numbered with the very greatest of his ninetythree predecessors in the chair of Saint Augustine. It is evidence of his statesmanlike qualities that a spontaneous desire-arises for his creation as a Lord Temporal on relinquishing his scat in the Upper Chamber as a Lord Spiritual. In tho Church itself he has become more and more the centre of unity. Ho has contrived in a' period of devisive tendencies to hold tho whole body of churchmen together. ' The Archbishop of Canterbury is entitled to a pension of £ISOO from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to which tho Primate like others contributed 3} per cent, of his church income.