Henry Newton (bishop), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Newton (bishop)

Bishop of New Guinea; Bishop of Carpentaria; English Anglican colonial bishop

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1866

Date of Death: 25-Sep-1947

Profession: priest

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Henry Newton (bishop)

  • Henry Newton (5 January 1866 – 25 September 1947) was an Anglican colonial bishop who served two Southern Hemisphere dioceses in the first half of the 20th century.He was educated at St.
  • Paul's College, Sydney and Merton College, Oxford.
  • Ordained in 1891, after a curacy at St John’s, Hackney he emigrated to the Antipodes where he became Priest at Esk, Queensland and then a missionary in New Guinea.
  • From 1915 to 1922 he was the second Bishop of Carpentaria.
  • Translated to New Guinea in 1922, he retired in 1936.

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