ANGLICAN CHURCH

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20473, 30 July 1928, Page 10

ANGLICAN CHURCH

SUCCESSOR TO PRIMATE. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK CHOSEN. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, July 27. Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang (Archbishop of York) has been appointed to the Primacy in succession to the Most Rev. Dr Davidson. —Australian Press Association. HONOUR FOR THE PRIMATE. FREEDOM OF THE CITY OP LONLMN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 27. The corporation of the City of London has, resolved to confer the freedom of the city on the Archbishop of Canterbury in view of his approaching retirement. Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang belongs to a well-known Scottish family, and on both his father’s and his mother’s side is connected with the Church of Scotland. He was born on October 31, 1864, being the son of the Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, D.D., vice-chancellor and principal of Aberdeen University, and the grandson of the Rev. Gavin Lang, of Nielsland. He received his early education in Glasgow, and proceeded from the university of that city to Oxford with a scholarship at Balliol College in 1882. At that time he contemplated law as a profession, and became a student of the Inner Temple in 1883. He was president of the Oxford Union Society and the Canning Club. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls’ College in 1888. Two years later he was ordained and went to Leeds, where he was curate of the Parish Church under Edward Talbot, afterwards first Bishop of Southwark. Dr Lang laboured in that great Midland city for three years. In 1893 he came back to Oxford as fellow and divinity lecturer of Magdalen College, giving up meanwhile his Fellowship at All Souls, and was presented in the following year with the vicarage of St. Mary’s, University Church. He remained at Oxford till 1896, when he succeeded Father Dolling as vicar of the great dockyard parish of Portsea. Here he worked strenuously for six years, assisted by a staff of 14 curates, acting at the same time as chaplain to H.M. Prison at Kingston, In 1899 Dr Lang was appointed honorary chaplain to Queen Victoria, and in May, 1901, succeeded Dr Wilmington Ingram, on his elevation to the London See, as Bishop Suffragan of Stepney. He was also appointed canon and treasurer of St. Paul’s Cathedral. In the East End Dr Lang carried on the energetic tradition of his predecessor, and was notable for unsparing devotion to his work. He was appointed Archbishop of York in 1008. Dr Lang belongs to the High Church party, and that energetic group of the churchmen of the type of Father Dolling, who believe in associating the laity by means of guilds and church councils with the working of a parish.