Death of Archbishop Navarre of New Guinea

New Zealand Tablet, 25 January 1912, Page 49

Death of Archbishop Navarre of New Guinea

His Grace Archbishop Navarre, of British New Guinea, died in the Townsville (Queensland) Hospital last week. -By the Japanese mail steamer Nikko Maru, which arrived in Sydney on January 10, Archbishop Navarre, who was Vicar-Apostolic of British New Guinea until the beginning of 1908, when owing to advancing years he was over eighty —he resigned, was a passenger as far as Townsville, where illness obliged him to go ashore for treatmentr It was his Grace’s intention to enter St. Vincent’s Hospital as soon as he landed in Sydney. He was accompanied by the Rev. Father Pages, M.S.H. His Grace was consecrated titular Archbishop of

Cyrrhus in 1887.