THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 30

THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

PRIMATE’S RESIGNATION.

LONDON, July 25.' It is officially announced that the Archbishop of Canterbury will retire in November.

WIDESPREAD TRIBUTES. LONDON, July 26. Publicists and newspapers of all shades of opinion pay tribute to the Archbishop oi Canterbury. It is generally assumed that the Archbishop of York will succeed him, but the intriguing question now is, who will follow the Archbishop of York. The Daily Telegraph says that Dr Davidson’s primacy must be numbered with the very greatest of his S 3 predecessors in the Chair of St Augustine. 4t is evidence of his statesmanlike qualities that a spontaneous desire arises for his creation as a Lord Temporal on relinquishing his sti t in the upper chamber as a Lord Spiritual. In the church itself he has become more and more the centre of unity, and he has contrived in a period oi devisive tendencies to hold the whole body of churchmen together. The Archbishop of Canterbury is entitled. .to a pension of £l5OO from the common fund of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to which the Primate, like others, contributed 34 per cent, of his church income. SUUCCESSOr’tO PRIMATE. LONDON, July 27. Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang (Archbishop of York) has been appointed to the Primacy in succession to the Most Rev. Dr Davidson. • HONOUR FOR THE PRIMATE. RUGBY, July 27. The corporation of the City of London has resolved to confer tie freedom of the. city on the Archbishop of Canterbury in view of his approaching retirement.