Melanesian Mission
The Melanesian Mission is an Anglican missionary agency supporting the work of local Anglican churches in Melanesia.[1] It was established to purchase the ship Southern Cross.[2][3][4]
History
It dates from 1849,[5] [6]and missionaries included:
- Percy Temple Williams[7] (born 19 March 1866; died 12 October 1933) who was active in the mission from 1895 - 1899 in the Melanesian Mission in Queensland, Australian;[8] in the Guadalcanal diocese of Melanesia.[9][10]
- Richard Cuthbert Rudgard (born 28 December 1901;died 19 April 1985): During World War Two a Chaplain to the Forces [11] (mentioned in despatches thrice);[12] later Archdeacon of Basingstoke from 1958[13] until his retirement in 1971.[14]
Current activities
Today it continues to provide financial and staffing support for the Anglican Church of Melanesia, an independent province of the Anglican Communion.[15] Its headquarters are in Feniton, Devon.[16]
References
- ↑ Official website
- ↑ Historical resources on Anglicanism in Oceania
- ↑ "The History of the Melanesian Mission" Armstrong,E.S. London Isbister & Co, 1900
- ↑ God's Gentlemen: A History of the Melanesian Mission 1849-1942 Hilliard D: Australia], University of Queensland Press, 1978 ISBN 0702210668
- ↑ Project Canterbury
- ↑ Correspondence and photographs of the Melanesian Mission dating from 1872 are held by SOAS Archives.
- ↑ Wikimedia commons
- ↑ Blain's Biographical Directory
- ↑ "Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific" (PDF). 2015. Retrieved 12 December 2015.
- ↑ God's Gentlemen: A History of the Melanesian Mission 1849-1942 Hilliard, D: Australia, University of Queensland Press, 1978
- ↑ London Gazette
- ↑ RUDGARD, Ven. Richard Cuthbert’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 7 Oct 2017
- ↑ Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 30, 1958; pg. 12; Issue 54138 1971
- ↑ Church news The Times (London, England), Thursday, Mar 04, 1971; pg. 16; Issue 58113
- ↑ Melanesian Messenger Online
- ↑ bizd
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