THE FIRST PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF NEW ZEALAND.
The following circulars in connection with the forthcoming Provincial Council of New Zealand, to be held in Wellington on the 21st of next January, have been issued by his Grace the Archbibhop of Wellington :—: —
Franciscus, Dei et S. sedis Apo<-tolica3 gratia, Archiepiscopus Wellingtonen&is et Metropolitans. Illustrissimis ac Reverendissimis in Nova Zelandia Epibcopip, et aliis omnibus gui de jure Concilio Provinciali interesse debont, salutem in Domino.
Ex quo tianeta Sedes Apostolica pro providentissima sua sapientia Provinciam Ecclesias>ticani Wellingtonenseni in Provinciam ab Australia separatarn quatuor abhinc annis erexit, non semel declaravit valde sibi esse in votis ut quamprirnum in eadem Concilium Provinciale celcbraretur ; nos itaque benignas ejus voluntati humiliLcr ac devote ob&equentes, quod universal Provincial clero populoque felix faustumque sit, Concilium Provinciale Primum, in civitate Wellingtonensi, in Ecclesia nostra Cathedrali et sedibus Collegii Sancti Patricii, die viuesiina prima mcnsis Januarii, A.D. 18'JU, incohandum et sequentibus diebus celebrandum et terminandum auctoritate nostra Metropolitana indiximus, ac prysentibus litteris, Deo adjuvante et Auspice Beatissima Virgine jji^ Dei Genitrice Immaculata, indicimus ct constituimus. QjlPpropter Reverendissiinos Priwsules rogamus et injungimus ut cum suis theologis, c clero sccculari vel rpgulari se'ectis, hujus Concilii celebrationi intersint. Quod si fortasse eos aliqua justa necessitas impedierit, procuratores legitirno documento munitos mittant. Eos pra^terea monemus ut, in suis dioecesibus, omnibus gui Concilio Provinciali adesse debent, hujus Concilii indictionem notani faciant. Tandam rogamus orunes in Domino vchementer et obtestamur, ut conjunctis atque enixis orationibus Venerabilium Pastorum totius Cleri et Fidelium omnium a Deo, a quo sanc^x desideria, justa consilia ct recta sunt opera, gratiam supphcitsr impetremus, qua opus ab Ipso incoepoum ad Micem exituin perducamus.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 19, 15 September 1898, Page 15
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269THE FIRST PROVINCIAL COUNCIL OF NEW ZEALAND. New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 19, 15 September 1898, Page 15
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