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George Jose
George Herbert Jose (15 December 1868 – 26 November 1956) was a canon of St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide, Australia, archdeacon of Mount Gambier and Dean of Adelaide. Born at Bristol, UK, Jose was educated at Clifton College,"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p96: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948 and Worcester College, Oxford where he obtained his BA in 1903 and was awarded his MA in 1906. He left England for Australia in 1888 and after marrying Clara Ellen Sturt (d.1925) in 1890, they went together to China in 1891 where Jose worked as a lay CMS missionary until 1899. His brother was Arthur Wilberforce Jose. In 1900 Jose won a Davis Chinese Scholarship to Oxford University. After ordination in England and curacies at Gloucester and Oxford he and his wife went to Adelaide in South Australia in 1903 where he took charge of St Cyprian's, Lower North Adelaide. In 1906 he was appointed as rector of Christ Church, North Adelaide where he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Peter's Cathedral, Adelaide
St Peter's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Adelaide and Metropolitan of the Province of South Australia. The cathedral, a significant Adelaide landmark, is situated on approximately of land at the corner of Pennington Terrace and King William Road in the suburb of North Adelaide. The south front has similar features to the Cathedral of Notre Dame and the Church of St Jean-Baptiste de Belleville in Paris, including an ornate rose window above the main entrance which depicts stories of South Australia and the Bible. Foundation and construction The See of Adelaide was constituted in June 1847. As there was no cathedral, Trinity Church on North Terrace was denoted as the ''pro tempore'' cathedral church. Augustus Short, the first Bishop of Adelaide, held the first ordinations there on 29 June 1848 ( St Peter's feast day). When Adelaide was surveyed by Colonel William Light over a decade befor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
