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Seeking a See - A Journal of the Right Reverend Henry Laselles Jenner DD 1868-1869

By Henry Lascelles Jenner

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New Zealand / Nz Biographical

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Seeking a See. A Journal of The Right Reverend Henry Lascelles Jenner D.D. of his visit to Dunedin, New Zealand in 1868-1869. Edited by Rev John Pearce M.B.E. In Hardcovers with Dust Jacket, First Edition 1984, previous owners inscription on the front fly, Black and White Plates, 228 Pages, Published for the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Dunedin by John McIndoe Dunedin.
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Foreword- 'The Reverend John Pearce deserves our warm gratitude for his zeal and application in making the Journal of Bishop Jenner available to the general public. The Bishop writes graphically and with insight. The Journal provides a fascinating account of sea travel and the state of New Zealand in 1868. There are, however, other reasons which make this book particularly welcome. The episode of Bishop Jenner's appointment to the See of Dunedin is part of the history of the Anglican Communion. It concerns the relationship of the Archbishop of Canterbury to that Communion and the development of synodial government within it. It was hitherto been inadequately reported, as for example in the chapter on the Church in New Zealand in 'Constitutional Church Government' by Henry Lowther Clarke in 1924. Father John's introduction sets the episode against the contemporary background in Church affairs. It also provides new material, apparently not available when Dr Clarke wrote. His account implies, for example, that Dr Jenner improperly described himself as Bishjop of Dunedin. Father John's account makes it clear that while the Queen's Mandate for his consecration referred simply to a Bishop from the colony of New Zealand (it also authorised the consecration of Bishop Suter) the request of Bishop Selwyn was for a Bishop to be Bishop of Dunedin. Both the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop Selwyn personally addressed Bishop Jenner as Bishop of Dunbedin'

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