ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD IN AUSTRALIA

New Zealand Tablet, 7 November 1918, Page 23

ARCHBISHOP REDWOOD IN AUSTRALIA

Seldom has Sale received so distinguished a visitor as the Most Rev. Frame is M. Redwood', Arch-' bishop of Wellington, who is now a guest of the Bishop of Sale at St. Mary's (says the Gippsland "Times" of recent date). In the ecclesiastical world of his own Church Dr. Redwood holds many records. He is not only the senior Bishop in Australasia, but lie was raised to the Episcopate twenty years before the next in order of consecration. He has exercised episcopal Orders under four Popes; he has travelled more extensively than any ecclesiastic in the Southern Hemisphere, and speaks fluently the languages of most of the countries of Europe. Archbishop Redwood is an Englishman. He was bora on the Tixall Estate, Staffs, in April of 1839, and is now in his eightieth year, but has retained the youthful vigour of a man of fifty. When a child of three years he was taken to New Zealand by his parents, who were among the early settlers in the Dominion. In his sixteenth year Dr. Redwood developed a vocation for the priesthood, and went to France to commence his ecclesiastical studies. During his nine years there he made the acquaintance of General Pan, and during the past few weeks was photographed with his old school companion in Queensland. At the age of thirty-five Dr. Redwood was consecrated Bishop of Wellington by the late Cardinal Manning, and in due time became its first Archbishop and Metropolitan of New Zealand. Among Dr. Redwood's many accomplishments he is considered a good violinist, and is the happy possessor of one of the old instruments, now 218 years old. Dr. Phelan has arranged to take his distinguished visitor to the Lakes Entrance, returning via Bairnsdale..