DIOCESE OF SYDNEY.
NEW ARCHBISHOP ELECTED. SYDNEY, April 7. The Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney elected, by‘a substantial majority, the Rt. Reverend Howard W. K. Mowll, D.D., Bishop in Western China, as Archbishop of (Sydney, in Succession to the late Archbishop Wright. (The Right Rev. H. W. Mowll has been bishop of Western China since 1926, and Was assistant bishop for four years prior to that. He was born in Dover, Kent, in 1899, and was educated at King’s School, Canterbury, and a King’s College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. He was tutor at the Wycliffe College, Toronto, from 1913 to 1916, a professor in 1916-17, and dean of the college from '1919 to 1922. To reach his home in Western China from the nearest commercial centre, Bishop Mowll has to travel 1500 miles by steamer up the great Yangtse-Kiang River, and then on foot for ten days. His diocese is about the size of France, and contains about 70,000,000 people. Bishop and Mrs Mowll visited Wellington in July, 1931, during the course of a tour of New Zealand. - )
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Wairarapa Age, 8 April 1933, Page 3
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