COADJUTOR-BISHOP OF AUCKLAND

New Zealand Tablet, 29 April 1920, Page 23

COADJUTOR-BISHOP OF AUCKLAND

THE RECTOR ;OF 1 HOLY 'CROSS COLLEGE,, MOSGIEL, *~ ' APPOINTED. ...-: : : -

>,,,,: A . cable message has been received : from his Excellency the Apostolic Delegate notifying the « appointment by his Holiness the Pope of the Very Rev. Father James Michael Liston, Rector of the Provincial Ecclesiastical Seminary, Holy ; Cross College, Mosgiel, as CoadjutorBishop of Auckland. ~ The Right Rev. Dr. Liston was born in ; Dunedin on June 2, 1882, a son of the late : James Liston. ~-.'. He received ! his education at the Christi Brothers' School, Dunedin, and afterwards studied at- St. Patrick's Ecclesiastical College, Manly, Sydney,.under the

late Dr. Verdon; and later at Clonliffe College, Dublin, and at the Irish College, Rome. He was ordained by the Right Rev. Bishop • Verdon at St. Joseph's Cathedral, Dunedin, in 1904, and has since been stationed at Holy Cross College, filling the office, of parish priest of Mosgiel for some years, and also professor at the college prior to 1910, when he was appointed Rector. The news of Dr. Liston's elevation to the episcopate was received with much delight by his numerous friends, tinged, however, with regret at his pending departure from amongst the people of the district,- to whom ho has greatly endeared himself.