Ordained In Prison Camp
(P.A.) DUNEDIN, This Day The story of ordination into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in a German prison camp, of Mr. lan Graham Ryburn. was told at a meeting of the Dunedin presbytery in a letter from Captain R. J- Griffiths, C.F. (Waimate), himself a prisoner of war. Mr. Ryburn, at the time of his enlistment, was a student at the Theological Hall. 'Knox College. The ordination ceremony was conducted by Captain Griffiths at Genshngen Camp, Berlin,, on October 2, 1944. An interesting feature of the occasion was the earnest co-operation of the German military authorities at the instance of the Y.M.C.A. in Germany.
Captain Griffiths emphasised the part played by the German High Command in making his attendance possible, by conveying him a considerable distance. Mr. Ryburn’s camp congregation comprised about 158 men from working camps in'various parts of Germany, as well as representatives of the German Foreign Office and German Army.
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Northern Advocate, 7 March 1945, Page 5
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