Australian bishop (1841–1920)
Arthur Wellesley Pain (21 August 1841 – 14 May 1920) was an Anglican bishop and the first Bishop of Gippsland from 1902 until 1917.[1]
Born in Felmersham and educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge ,[2] he was ordained in 1866.[3] He began his career as curate of Holbrook, Suffolk before emigrating to Australia two years later as incumbent of Cobbitty, New South Wales .[4] His next appointment was as Vicar of Narellan, NSW then Rural Dean of Camden . In 1883 he was appointed rector of St. John's, Darlinghurst , in East Sydney, and in 1893 chaplain to Saumarez Smith , Bishop of Sydney . From 1897 he was canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney .[5]
It was announced in April 1902 that Pain would be appointed the first Bishop of Gippsland ,[5] and his ordination to the episcopate came when he was consecrated the following month.[6] [7]
Notes
^ "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black , 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
^ "Pain, Arthur Wellesley (PN862AW)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
^ "In the Master's service for 52 years in Australia, Arthur Wellesley Pain", Pain, A.F: NSW, Belrose, 1981, ISBN 0-9593239-0-2
^ a b "Ecclesiastical intelligence". The Times . No. 36751. London. 25 April 1902. p. 9.
^ Diocese of Gippsland web site Archived 13 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ The Times , 21 May 1902; p8; "Ecclesiastical Intelligence: Consecration of the first Bishop of Gippsland"