Anglicans at Odds: Bishop Patteson and the Evangelical CMS Missionaries in Colonial New Zealand

A Lecture by Rowan Strong for the Evangelical History Association

Thursday 13th October 2022
Online via Zoom and in person at Wollaston College
5 Wollaston Rd, Mount Claremont, WA
The lecture will commence at the following times on Thursday 13 October 2022:
Perth, Australia        5:00 pm AWST
Sydney, Australia      8:00 pm AEDT
Brisbane, Australia    7:00 pm AEST
Adelaide, Australia    7:30 pm ACDT
Hobart, Australia       8:00 pm AEDT

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This lecture looks at John Coleridge Patteson’s particular engagement with, and views of, the CMS missionaries, and asks how accurate and appropriate they were as a supporter of Bishop George Augustus Selwyn?
 
Patteson joined the staff of George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand, in 1855. He was a young priest well-connected to the English establishment through his father and uncle who were both senior judges. In New Zealand, he was given increasing responsibility for Selwyn’s Melanesian Mission, until he finally left that colony in 1867 to run the Melanesian Mission from Norfolk Island. By that time he was head of the Mission from Norfolk Island, having been consecrated as the first Bishop of Melanesia since 1861. During Patteson’s New Zealand ministry Selwyn had increasing differences with the evangelical CMS missionaries, particularly over the issue of Maori land rights and the looming land war which broke out in the 1860s. 

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Rowan Strong is Professor Emeritus in Church History, Murdoch University, and Professor of Church History at Wollaston Theological College, Perth, and in the University of Divinity. He has written extensively on British Christianity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; was the General Editor of The Oxford History of Anglicanism; and his most recent book is Victorian Christianity and Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c. 1840-1914 (Oxford University Press, 2017).