TWO CONVERT PRIESTS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 4 January 1917, Page 7

TWO CONVERT PRIESTS

Among those ordained to the priesthood at.St. Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, by Archbishop Kelly, on November 30 .was the Rev. W. J. Geer, M.A., eldest son of the late Anglican Vicar of Mildura (says the Tribune). Father Geer was educated at Ballarat College, where he matriculated with honors, and won a Trinity' College (Melbourne University) Exhibition. After a three years' course at the University he gained his degrees in'arts. Then, as an Anglican clergyman, he labored in the dioceses of Ballarat, Tasmania, and Sydney. About five years ago, when he was attached to All Saints' Anglican Church, Woollahra, Sydney, he was received into the Catholic Church. As Father Geer is the first ex-Anglican clergyman-born in Australia to become a Catholic priest, his ordination will be received with much joy by Catholics throughout Australia. ■% On Sunday, December 3, another , ex-Anglican clergyman, Rev. W. -Carrie, ' M.A., was raised to the priesthood. Father Carrie is a native of England, and a graduate of Cambridge University. As, an: Anglican clergyman he worked in England and in various •places in Queensland, and just prior to'his conversion he was Rector of Sandgate, Queensland, He was ordained by Bishop Sheil at Rockhampton, Queensland, in which diocese he will now labor. -,■■„■' .. Both Father Geer and Father Carrie did their theo- - logical course at St. Patrick's College, Manly, N.S.W. Including-the above, no fewer than twelve priests will be ordained at Manly in the ordination ceremonies for this year. ■ ■-;,,;,:' ; ..y ''■'-. ■:--'■: v -■•■■" ■■, ;! .--..j--- ■■;.."■;-,'..,; r '-- -_/■■