John Chisholm (archbishop of Melanesia)

John Wallace Chisholm, (14 September 1923 – 24 May 1975) was an Australian divine who served as the tenth Anglican Bishop of Melanesia[1] and first Archbishop of the Province of Melanesia.

He was educated at Trinity College, University of Melbourne[2] and ordained in 1947. His first post was as a Curate at St Stephen's Church, Rochester Row, Westminster[3] after which he was Sub-Dean of Ss Peter and Paul Cathedral, Dogura, Territory of Papua and New Guinea.[4] From his consecration as a bishop on 24 February 1964[5] until 1967 he was an Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of New Guinea[6] when he became Bishop of Melanesia,[7] a post he held until 26 January 1975 when the Diocese of Melanesia became a province and he automatically became Archbishop of Melanesia (and Primate) and Bishop of Central Melanesia.[8] He died on 24 May, shortly after signing the last paperwork of the Province's creation process.[9]

References

  1. ^ Anglican history
  2. ^ "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  3. ^ Church web site Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ John biographical entry at the Solomon Islands Encyclopaedia
  5. ^ "Archived copy". anglicanarchives.org.au. Archived from the original on 9 April 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  7. ^ Consecration details Archived 2013-04-10 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ [1] p. 80
  9. ^ Project Canterbury


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