SELECTING A BISHOP
DIOCESE OF WAIAPU SPECIAL SESSION OF SYNOD PbY telegraph—OWN correspondent] NAPIER, Thursday The selection of a successor to the late Bishop Williams, Bishop of Waiapu, will be determined at a special session of the Waiapu Diocesan Synod on March 4. The appointment of Rev. E. M. Cowie, vicar of Khandallah, Wellington, as commissary to preside over the session, is also announced. Tho deliberations at this session will bo conducted in camera, and even when the synod has adjourned no public announcement will bo made as to the appointment decided upon. In accordance with the amended Church canon, it is required that the name selected by synod should be submitted first to the Primate, then to the Bench of Bishops, and finally to tho standing committees in all dioceses of !Nejv Zealand. The Waiapu election will be the first conducted under Ae new canon.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22972, 25 February 1938, Page 10
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