The Bishopric of Port Augusta

New Zealand Tablet, 18 October 1906, Page 24

The Bishopric of Port Augusta

His Grace the Archbishop (says -the Adelaide Sou them. Cross 'of October 5:)-has xeceived- the blriefs from Rome, notifying the' Right Rev. Mgr. Nor.tori, VvG?, ,/Jand^administrator of the diocese since the dece;ase of "Uiellate I " Bishop, as the third Bishop of Port" Augusta/ ~~Mgi\ Norton is ah Australian by birth, having been born in Victoria. He was educated at St. Patrick's Jesuit College, Melbourne. He' afterwards- studied at St. Kyran's " College, Kilkenny, and the Propaganda in Rome. Mgr.-. Norton has been Vicar-General of the diocese for ten >s - years, and pastor -of Petersburg for twenty. At a meeting of the clergy after the death of the-late Bishop Mgr. Norton was placed first" 'on, the list of nominations. ' "