A POPULAR APPOINTMENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 3765, 11 May 1926, Page 22

A POPULAR APPOINTMENT.

BISHOP OF WAIKATO. SCHOLAR, PRKACIIER AND ORGANISER. It was recently announced that the office of bishop of the newly-created diocese of Waikato had been accepted by Archdeacon Cecil Arthur Cherrington, Archdeacon of Mauritius since 1923. Archdeacon Cherrington, who is 47 years of age, attended St. Aidan’s College, Birkenhead, in 1895. He look his 11. A. degree at the University of London in 1893, and received the degree of P-»che-lor of Divinity in 1905. He secured honours in Greek, New Testament and Aphocrypha in 1907, and in Biblical and historical theology in 1908. Achdeacon Cherrington became a deacon in 1896 and priest in 1897. He was curate of St. Chad, Everton. from 1896 to 1897, and was stationed at Haigh from 1897 to 1899. He was chaplain of Birkenhead School from 1899 to 1903 and curate of All Saint’s. Oxton, fro 1 1900 to 1903. He was licensed preacher in the diocese of Chester from 1903 to 1904 and in the diocese of Lichfield from 1904 to 1909, being chaplain and lecturer at the Lichfield Theological College during the samp period. He was vicar of Tunstall i nthe diocese cf Lichfield from 1909 to 1910, and was a temporary chaplain of the forces from 1916 to 1918. 1.-eing engaged in special service under the War Office, frqm 1918 to 1923 His appointment as archdeacon of Mauritius was announced on December 1, 1922. A former pupil, nnw the vicar of an important parish in New Zealand, says: “I lived with Cherrington for a year in Nelywn Hostel. Lichfield, while undergoing my theological course, and therefore knew him well. He is a man I have a great admiration for. Wonderfully able and efficient, vet spiritual, with a great love for souls, he was the most popular man on the staff. His wife, too, is a verv nice woman—very kind to the men in the collage, who were very fond of her. I hope that he will be amvninted. Waikato would be fortunate in getting him as first bishop.” The same vicar says: ‘'Cherrington is an excellent man of wide sympathies. A scholar, a good preacher and organiser, and a bard worker, be would bn a grpat acquisition to the Church i.i New Zealand.”