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NEW APPOINTMENT ARCHBISHOP OF PERTH DECISION OF BISHOPS s DR. LE FANU'S CAREER By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received March 14, 7.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, March 14 The House of Bishops, at a meeting in Sydney, elected the Archbishop of Perth, Dr. Henry Frewen le Fanu, as Primate of the Church of England in Australia. An official statement said: " The issue from the beginning was the relative importance of the traditional location of the Primacy in Sydney and the value of the Archbishop of Perth's long experience of Australian conditions and problems. The House of Bishops, therefore, decided to elect Dr. le Fanu, who has been acting-Primate since the death of the late Archbishop of Sydney.
Dr. Henry F. Ie Fanu is a son of Mr. W. 11. le Fanu, Commissioner of Public Works, Ireland. He was born on April 1, 1870, in Dublin and was educated at Haileybury and Keble College, Oxford. He was ordained in 1894 and was curate in Poplar, London, 1894-99, chaplain to the Bishop of Rochester, 1899-1901, chaplain Guy's Hospital, 1902-04, Archdeacon and Canon Residentiary St. John's Cathedral, Brisbane, 1909-15, and Coadjutor Bishop of Brisbane, 1915-29. He was appointed Archbishop of Perth in 1929.'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22059, 15 March 1935, Page 9
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