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The Bishop's statements about Aborigines, church's responsibility; missionary work among them 1814-51 (chap.9).
William G. Broughton (1788-1853) was born in the heart of London's Westminster district, at Bridge Street. The Duke of Wellington's patronage raised Broughton from the obsucre curate at Farnham to archdeacon of New South Wales and the colony's third-ranking citizen. With seats on the colony's councils Broughton exercised a decisive influence over land, immigrantion and a transportation policies. As bishop from 1836 to 1853 Broughton presided over the dissolution of the Church of England's privileged status but, in spite of this reversal shaped a province of six dioceses by 1848 and was bolding planning a rival church university of Sydney's.
This book examines the history, theology and liturgy of the Eucharist in the Anglican Church of Australia from its earliest foundation after the arrival of British settlers in 1788 to the present.
New Zealand’s first Anglican bishop, George Selwyn, was a towering figure in the young colony. Denounced as a ‘turbulent priest’ for speaking out against Crown practices that dispossessed Māori, he brought a vigorous approach to Episcopal leadership. His wife Sarah Selwyn supported all her husband’s activities, in a life characterised as one of ‘hardship and anxiety’. She expressed independently her sense of outrage over the Waitara dispute. Selwyn promoted participatory church government, founded the innovative Melanesian Mission, and developed a distinctive style of colonial church architecture. More controversially, he battled with the Church Missionary Society, and was caugh...