Verwandte Artikel zu Augustus Short; First Bishop of Adelaide a Chapter...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XI. THE GENERAL SYNOD OF AUSTRALIA AND TASMANIA. ppLTHOUGH it may, prima facie, appear somewhat out of place in chronicling the early history of one Australian diocese and its first ruler to deal with a subject like the General Synod of Australia, which has regard to the federal union of all the dioceses, yet the first bishop of Adelaide had such a leading part--as will be seen--in developing the General Synod, and was so conspicuously in the van of all synodical action, that any account of his life would seem incomplete which did not identify him with the great united synodal movement of the Australian Church. Moreover, the actual position of any one of the dioceses cannot be altogether rightly understood without considering the relation in which it stands to its fellows. As was pointed out by the now retired bishop of Brisbane (Dr. Hale) in his opening address--as senior bishop of Australia--to the General Synod in its session of 1881, that body owes its existence to two declarations made in England in favour of synodal union. There was first a 'recommendation' of the Convocation of Canterbury 'put forth,' says Bishop Hale, 'in the interests of the Colonial Church' in the year 1860 which affirmed that:--"There seems to us to be a special need of combined counsels to maintain in unity the Church as it extends; and that by a regular gradation of duly constituted Synods, all questions affecting unity might be duly settled--Diocesan Synods determining all matters not ordered by the Synod of the Province; Provincial Synods determining all matters not ordered by a National Synod; a National Synod determining all matters not ordered by a General Council. Unity with necessary variety might thus be secured in our spreading branch of the Holy Catholic Chu...
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