Bishop "In" Polynesia

IT appears that the full title of Poly nesia’s Bishon is “Bishop in Poly nesia”—as opposed to the other'more ordinary form. “Bishop of.” This “in” instead of “of” has caused some confu sion in newspaper circles, but now we have the true explanation, from the Bishop himself, the Right Reverend L. S.

Kempthorne.

During his visit to Australia in June, he described his diocese as about seven and a half million square miles—most of it sea.

There were, he said, important differences in the administration of the various islands in the area—Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands, Tonga, Society Islands and the Gilbert and Ellice Groups—and these accounted for the Bishop’s title. Origin ally the “in” was used instead of the “of” to show the French Administrators of Tahiti and French Oceania that the Bishop had no territorial ambitions.