Arthur Green (bishop)

Arthur Vincent Green ( born October 31, 1857 in Albury, Surrey, England; † September 24, 1944 in Heidelberg in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) was Bishop of Grafton and Armindale in Australia.

Family

He was the eldest son of the Reverend Samuel Dutton Green and Eliza NN.

On December 28, 1880, he married in Avenel, Victoria ( Australia) Matilda Tucker ( * May 29, 1851, † June 30, 1941 ), the daughter of Archdeacon Joseph Kidger Tucker.

Life

Green was in 1874 enrolled at Durham University in England, but was already 1874/1875, after the mother had died in 1872, with his father to Australia.

There he studied theology at Trinity College at Melbourne University, graduated in 1879 with highest honors, in 1883 graduated as a Master of Arts from the University of Melbourne in 1885 and made the LL.B. and 1887 the LL.D. from the University of Sydney.

On 19 December 1880 he became a deacon and on December 18, 1881 priests in the Diocese of Melbourne. After that, he was Archbishop in Ballarat (1890-1894) until he was ordained on May 1, 1894 in Melbourne for the third Bishop and 1900 for the second Bishop of Grafton and Armindale. In his tenure as bishop he founded more than 80 churches and the " St. John's Theological College " ( Auckland, New Zealand) and the " St. Aidan 's Theological College ".

1915 Arthur Green retired, but was from 1918-1941 professor of theology at Trinity College, where he once started, even with his studies.

Source

• Anglican Diocese of Grafton Records Centre, Diocesan Archivist information of Reverend Geoffrey E. Foley on July 26, 2005.

Bibliography

• "Australian sermons", Diocesan Book Society, Melbourne, 1930, ISBN B0008BRYAU.

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