NEW BISHOP

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22481, 27 July 1936, Page 10

NEW BISHOP

CONSECEATION RITES CEREMONY AT WELLINGTON SEVEN PRELATES TAKE PART [by telegraph—press association] WELLINGTON, Sunday In accordance with the ancient forms of the Church, Archdeacon Herbert St. Barbo Holland was consecrated as fifth bishop of the Diocese of Wellington at St. Paul's pro-Cathedral to-day. Including the Archbishop, the Most Rev. Dr. A. W. Averill, seven bishops took part in tho consecration, each performing the laying on of hands on the head of the new bishop. They were tho retired Bishop of Wellington, the lit. Rev. T. H. Sprott, Bishop Fitchett, of Dunedin, Bishop Williams, of Waiapu, tho Bishop of Aotearoa, Bishop Bennett, Bishop Milliard, of Nelson, and the Bishop in Jerusalem, the Jit. Rev. G. F. GrahamBrown, who is visiting New Zealand. The bishop-elect, vested in his rochet, was presented to the Archbishop by Bishop Williams and Bishop Fitchett. Archbishop Averill then demanded the mandate for tho consecration, which was road by tho Chancellor of the Diocese. Tho bi.shop-eJ.ect then took the oath of duo obedience to the Archbishop, the terms of which were: "In the name of God, Amen, I, Herbert St. Barbo Holland, chosen bishop of the Church and See of Wellington, do profess and promise all due reverence and obedience to tho Archbishop of the Church of the Province of New Zealand, and to his successor, so help me God, through Jesus Christ."

The hands of the primate and then those of the other prelates were laid on the bowed head of the bishop-elect. Archbishop Averill also presented a crozier, the episcopal ring and the pectoral cross to Bishop Holland.