From New Zealand-
The Anglican church welcomes a new Bishop of Auckland tomorrow when the Very Reverend Ross Bay is ordained at the Cathedral of Holy Trinity in Parnell.
The ordination was expected to attract Anglican church representatives from throughout the country.
Rev Bay would become the 11th Bishop of Auckland when called into the church with a karanga after a long procession of clergy from the Diocese of Auckland with representatives from New Zealand and Polynesia, said church spokesman, the Rev Jayson Rhodes.
Following his ordination, the new bishop would be welcomed by the cathedral community in the service of installation.
That would begin with the bishop following an ancient tradition of knocking three times with his pastoral staff on the closed doors of the cathedral, said Rev Rhodes.
The doors were then opened to welcome the new bishop to the cathedral where the bishop's chair resided as a sign of his office.
The pastoral staff to be used by the new bishop was presented to Bishop William Cowie in 1890 by the clergy of the Diocese of Auckland to mark his 21st year as Bishop of Auckland.
More here-
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3589370/New-bishop-for-Anglican-Church-in-Auckland
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