A NEW DIOCESE.
END OF OLD ORDER. A RECORD 01'' PROGRESS. In welcoming clergy and laity to the third session of' the twenty-fourth Synod of the Auckland diocese, Dr. Averill, Primate and Archbishop of New Zealand, and Bishop of Auckland, commented on the fact that the present Synod would, in all probability, mark the end of the old order as far as the mother diocese of Auckland was concerned. For that reason it would be associated with many deep and sincere regrets. His Grace took the opportunity of, recording his very real appreciat ion of the valuable ’services rendered by the clergy and laity from those parts of the diocese which would shortly be constituted a new diocese. The mother diocese of Auckland would watch with prayerful interest the growth and development of its promising offspring, the diocese of Waikato.
Since tlio start of Dr, Avorill’s episcopate in the Auckland diocese, in February. 1914. every parish, parochial or mission district, except Hamilton and Cambridge, had changed its vicar. His Grace referred to the districts to be cut off from Auckland in the formation of the Waikato diocese. The archdeacons of Waikato and Taranaki had not changed, and His Grace thanked them both for their great help. Since 19.14, eleven new parochial districts had been formed in what was to be the new diocese, and twenty-five new churches or church halls had been built, in addition to six parish halls and eleven vicarages. The buildings erected or acquired in that area during the past eleven and a-lialf years worked out on an average of nearly two buildings for every parish and district. “I have appointed Venerable Archdeacon MacMurrav as commissary for conducting the election ot the first bishop of the diocese of Waikato,” said His Grace. “As the new diocese of Waikato will deprive the diocese of Auckland of two of its archdeaconries 1 have decided to divide the archdeaconry of Auckland and create a new archdeaconry for the southern portion of the diocese.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16870, 27 October 1925, Page 7
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333A NEW DIOCESE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16870, 27 October 1925, Page 7
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