CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20786, 3 August 1929, Page 15

CHURCH IN AUSTRALIA

MELBOURNE ARCHBISHOPRIC. OFFER TO REV. T. G. ROGERS. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) LONDON, August lib It is understood that it is improbable that the Rev. T. G. Rogers will accept the offer of the Archbishopric of Melbourne.—Australian Press Association. ANOTHER NAME MENTIONED. ARCHDEACON CECIL WILSON. LONDON, August 2., (Received August 3, at 1 a.m.) Archdeacon Cecil Wilson says ho neither confirms nor denies that he has been offered the archbishopric of Melbourne. He has just returned from a holiday on the Continent. He succeeded Archbishop Lee at Swansea when the latter accepted the archbishopric of Melbourne.—Australian Press Association. The Rev. Travers Guy Rogers has been rector of Birmingham since 1923. He was at Trinity College, Dublin. His first, curacy was in Dublin, and he was later at Monkstown, St. Barnabas, Kensington, Holy Trinity, Marylebone, and vicar of St. Stephen’s, Reading, 1009-15. He was for some time a chaplain to the forces, and from 191(1 to 1925 he was vicar of West Ham. He has published various books, including “The Inner Life,” and he contributed to the “ Liberal Evangelical Essavs ” 1023 and 1925.