Visit Of Cardinal Gilroy For The Canterbury Centenary

Wanganui Chronicle, 17 October 1950, Page 6

Visit Of Cardinal Gilroy For The Canterbury Centenary

Paying his second visit to New' Zealand since his elevation to the Sacred College in 1945 his Eminence Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, will arrive in Wellington in the Monowai on November 14 to preside over functions and ceremonies in connection with the Catholic share of the Canterbury provincial centenary to be held in Christchurch from November 15 to 19.

Cardinal Gilroy last visited New Zealand in 1941 for the consecration of Archbishop McKeefry. Following the Christchurch celebrations, his Eminence will visit Dunedin and will arrive back in Wellington on November 22 and leave in the Wanganella on his return to Sydney the following day. Cardinal Norman Thomas Gilroy, Archbishop of Sydney, Metropolitan of New South Wales and spiritual guide and leader of more than 400,000 Catholics who live in the Sydney archdiocese of 11,500 square miles, began life as a messenger boy in the Post and Telegraph Department ana saw' service during the Great War as<, a radio operator in the Merchant Navy. His studies for the priesthood took him to Rome where he was ordained on Christmas Eve, 1923, and Later took his degree as Doctor of Divinity. At the age of 38 he became Bishop of Port Augusta, and six years later he succeeded Archbishop Kelly as Archbishop of Sydney. In 1949 he went to Japan as Cardinal Legate to the fourth centenary celebrations honouring St. Francis Xavier, and he has already spent the greater part of this year in India presiding over the first plenary council of the Indian hierarchy as Papal Legate, or on travels w'hich have taken him to Rome on a visit to the Pope, to England and Ireland.