Auckland brotherhood Gathering.

Waiapu Church Gazette, 1 October 1910, Page 17

Auckland brotherhood Gathering.

It is more than a quarter of a century since Dr. Lightfoot was called away from Cambridge to be Bishop of Durham. One of the first needs he saw was to induce a larger number of Oxford and Cambridge graduates to come North. He called for volunteers to follow and live with him — some as Chaplains, others m preparation for Holy Orders. Among the first to answer were the present Bishops of Wakefield and Rochester, the Deans of Lichfield and Westminster. As the band grew they assembled from their Parishes on IS. Peter's Day at Auckland Castle

with almost unbroken regularity during the reigns of Lightfoot and Westcott. But the Brotherhood was scattering over the world — a bishop of Adelaide, m Madagascar, of Nagpur, of the Falkland Islands, of Rockharapton ; an Archdeacon of Durban, a Dean of Pretoria, a Suffragan of Hull, a Dean of Christ Church, Oxford ; Persia and Delhi and Oregon, Tasmania, and the Home Counties, Seanien's Missions, and Australian townships, Navy Chaplaincies, and Japanese Bishoprics each claimed their quota. No Continent is now wanting a representative from among those who drew their greatest inspiration from the Bishops of Durham. * The Brotherhood now issues a quarterly Magazine, and has never ceased to raise enough funds to provide a Curate for the Church of S. Ignatius, Sunderland, a gift from Bishop Lightfoot to the Diocese. The Bishop of Durham invited the Brotherhood to Auckland for S. Peter's Day, 1911.