New Zealand Tablet. Fiat Justitia. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1874. WELLINGTON DIOCESE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 51, 18 April 1874, Page 5

New Zealand Tablet. Fiat Justitia. SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1874. WELLINGTON DIOCESE.

The Most Rev. Dr. Redwood is the new Bishop of "Wellington. His Lordship's nomination by Propaganda was made on the 20th January last, and confirmed by His Holiness on the 25th of the same month. The brief of His Holixess bears date the 1 Oth March ; and Dr. Redwood was to have been consecrated in London on last St. Patrick's Day by the Most Rev. Archbishop Manning, assisted by the Bishops of Birmingham and Southwark. In order that the Bishop of Dunedin might be relieved of the onerous charge of the administration of the Diocese of Wellington, Dr. Redwood was authorised by the Holy See to take possession of his Uattedral by proxy. This His Lordship has dor.c, and pending his arrival in the Colony he has appointed the Very Rev. Father Fokest, of Napier, his Vicar-General. Bishop Moran's jurisdiction ceases in the Diocese of Wellington, and for the future till Dr. Redwood's arrival, the administration of the Wellington Diocese is confided to Father Forest. We beg to congratulate the clergy and laity of Wellington on Dr. Redwood's appointment. He is a colonist, a member of the Marist Society, and an Ecclesiastic of high character for learning and virtue. The interregnum of nearly two years is at length at an end, and Wellington can now rejoice that she is no longer a widowed Church.