Personals

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 36, Issue 6, 1 September 1945, Page 10

Personals

The Rt. Rev. William Johnson, Bishop of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, has resumed his episcopal duties following a serious illness. The ' Rt. Rev. William George Hardie, D.D., Bishop of Jamaica, has been elected Archibshop of the West Indies. He was elected Bishop of the see m 1931. The Bishop of Wakefield, Dr. C. R. Hone, who is 71, has also announced that it is his intention to resign soon. In 1931 he was, consecrated BishopSuffragan 'of Pontefract and was translated to Wakefield m }938. The Bishop of Salisbury, who is 76, has announced to the Greater Chapter of Salisbury Cathedral that he will resign the see on April 30 of next year. Dr. Lovett has been at Salisbury since 1936. Previously he. was Bishop of Portsmouth from 1927. The Rev. Cherakarotta Korula Jacob, vice-principal of Bishop's College, Calcutta, has been elected Bishop of Travancore m place of Bishop Corefield, who left India last year. Mr. Jacob is the first Indian, priest to be elected bishop of an Indian diocese. Dr. M. H. Maxwell-Gumbleton is resigning the offices of Bishop-Suf-fragan of Dunwich and Archdeacon of Sudbury. He was appointed Assistant Bishop m the diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich m 1931 and became Bishop of Dunwich m 1934. He was Bishop of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, from 1917 to 1927. The Rev. Leslie Edward Stradling, vicar of St. Anne's, Wandsworth, has accepted the Archbishop of Canterbury's off of the Bishopric of Masasi. He will succeed the Rt. Rev. W. V. Lucas, the first Bishop of Masasi, who resigned on account of ill-health at the end of last year, after holding office for 18 years. Owing to ill-health, Dr. Manning, who has been Bishop of New York for 25 years, asked Bishop Gilbert to preside m his place at the close of his address to the diocesan convention, held m New York on May Bth. The doctor has assured Dr. Manning that he will be fully recovered m a short time and able to continue his work as Bishop. Dr. A. C. Headlam, one of England's most noted bishops, resigns the See of Gloucester next month. Dr. Headlam has rendered great service not only m the bishopric of Gloucester, but to the whole Church of England, and indeed to all the churches m the land. Christians of every denomination owe Dr. Headlam a great debt of gratitude for the contributions he has made -to New Testament scholarships and Biblical theology. After a long life of. devoted service he is laying down the. burden at the ripe age of 83.