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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1963Vol. XXXIII, No. 9

Archbishop Strong

p. 22 · Read in the full issue

Enthroned

A RCHBISHOP Phillip Strong, Ang lican Bishop of New Guinea for 26 years, was enthroned as Arch bishop of Brisbane, at St. John’s Cathedral, Brisbane, on March 28.

He had left the Territory a fortnight earlier after a long round of fare wells.

Archbishop Strong said on his de parture that a great deal of mission ary work still remained to be done in P-NG and the challenge was greater than ever”.

After his enthronement, the Rt.

Rev. David Hand, 44, coadjutor to Archbishop Strong in New Guinea, was unanimously elected by the Anglican General Synod’s House of Bishops as Bishop of New Guinea.