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Newton Theological College
Newton Theological College is a Papua New Guinean educational institution in Popondetta, Papua New Guinea. It trains candidates for ordination in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. History Anglican mission activity commenced in the Territory of Papua in 1891. Theological training was taking place in Dogura at least as early as 1918. Originally located in Dogura, the base of the New Guinea Mission and the seat of the Bishop of New Guinea, Ss Peter and Paul Cathedral, Dogura, the college moved to Popondetta some years after the Mount Lamington volcanic eruption in 1951 as part of the rebuilding efforts. It was still located in Dogura in 1970. In 1972 there was a proposal to relocate the college to near to the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby. The proposal was still under active consideration in 1975. Instead it moved to Popondetta in 1981. The college was originally named St Aidan's Theological College (along with the teacher training college, subsequentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Popondetta
Popondetta (sometimes spelled Popondota) is the capital of Oro (Northern) Province in Papua New Guinea. Popondetta is a city. In 1951 the city became the focus of relief efforts after nearby Mount Lamington erupted and killed 4,000 people. Popondetta is near to Buna on the Northern Papua coast and is not far from the beginning of the Kokoda Trail, made famous during World War II. This area of New Guinea is home to the endangered Queen Alexandra's birdwing, the world's largest butterfly. Climate Popondetta has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen ''Af'') with heavy rainfall year-round. Education Newton Theological College Newton Theological College is a Papua New Guinean educational institution in Popondetta, Papua New Guinea. It trains candidates for ordination in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. History Anglican mission activity commenced in the Territ ... is located in Popondetta. References Populated places in Oro Province Provincial capitals in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Newton (bishop)
Henry Newton (5 January 1866 – 25 September 1947) was an Anglican Colony, colonial bishop who served two Southern Hemisphere dioceses in the first half of the 20th century. Early life Newton was born Henry Wilkinson, the son of Thomas Wilkinson and his wife Anne (née Magney), in Buckland River (Victoria), Buckland, near Beechworth, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. In 1876 he was adopted by the Rev Frederick Robert Newton, and subsequently took his surname. Clerical career He was educated at St. Paul's College, Sydney and Merton College, Oxford. Ordained in 1891, after a curacy at Church of St John-at-Hackney, St John's, Hackney, London, Hackney he returned to the Antipodes where he became priest at St Agnes Anglican Church, Esk, St Agnes's Church, Esk, Queensland, and then a missionary in New Guinea. From 1915 to 1922 he was the second Bishop of Carpentaria. During his term as bishop, St Paul's Theological College, Moa, was opened for native students to train for ordinati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Siba
Walter Siba, was the third Anglican Bishop of Ysabel, one of the nine dioceses that make up the Anglican Church of Melanesia. He served from 1995 to 1999. he was previously principal of Newton Theological College in Popondetta, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i .... References Living people 20th-century Anglican bishops in Oceania Anglican bishops of Ysabel Year of birth missing (living people) {{Solomons-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Richardson (priest)
Paul Richardson (born 16 January 1947) is a British Roman Catholic priest and a former Anglican bishop. Early life Richardson was educated at Keswick School, The Queen's College, Oxford, Harvard Divinity School and Cuddesdon Theological College. Anglican ministry He was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1973 and served first as a curate at St John's Earlsfield, London. He was then the assistant chaplain in Oslo, Norway, and then a mission priest at Nambaiyfa in the highlands of Papua New Guinea before becoming the principal of Newton Theological College, Popondetta, and then the dean of St John's Cathedral, Port Moresby. He was the Bishop of Aipo Rongo in the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea from 1987 to 1995 when he was translated to the Diocese of Wangaratta in the Anglican Church of Australia. From 1998 to 16 January 2009 he was the Assistant Bishop of Newcastle in the Church of England. Roman Catholic ministry On 25 January 2009, the Feast of the Conversi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Kopapa
Joseph Kifau Kopapa (born Sinei, Tufi district, Oro Province, 9 September 1947) is a retired Papuan New Guinean Anglican bishop. He was Bishop of the Diocese of Popondota, from 2006 to 2010, and Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea, from 2010 to 2012, when he resigned. He is married to Wasita and the couple has five children, three male and two female. Early life and professional career He was born in Lefume village, Tufi district, in Oro Province. He did primary school at Sinei, and secondary school at Sogeri (1962-1965). Afterwards, he studied at Vudal Agricultural College in East New Britain Province, where he received a Diploma in Tropical Agriculture, in 1968. He worked for the Department of Agriculture, from 1969 to 1985, where he was Extension Officer, Lecturer, Director of Agricultural Education and Human Resource Development, and also Deputy Secretary. He won a Postgraduate Diploma and a MSc. in Agricultural Extension and Rural Sociology, from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Jupp
Roger Alan Jupp (born 1956) is a British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Popondota from 2003 to 2005. He returned to parish ministry because of ill-health. Early life Jupp was born in London and brought up in Blackheath. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham Boys' Grammar School (1968–74), St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA Theology 1978, MA 1982), St Mary's University, Twickenham (PGCE 1996), and Chichester Theological College (1979-80). Since his time at the University of Oxford he has been interested in the history of the Church of England in the nineteenth century. Between Oxford and commencing his training for ordination he worked as a nursing auxiliary at St Christopher's Hospice in Sydenham. Ordained ministry He was ordained deacon in 1980 and priest in 1981 and served as assistant curate of Newbold with Dunston (1980–83), Cowley St John (1983–85) and Islington St James with St Philip (1985–86). He was Vicar of Lower Beeding (1986–90) and domest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hough (bishop)
Michael George Hough is a retired Australian Anglican bishop who served in the Anglican Church of Australia and the Anglican Church of Papua New Guinea. He had previously been a Franciscan priest in the Roman Catholic Church. Hough was principal of Newton Theological College in Popondetta from 1993 to 1996. He then served as the Bishop of the New Guinea Islands A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ... from 1996 to 1998, Bishop of Port Moresby from 1998 to 2001 and Bishop of Ballarat from 2004 to 2010. In June 2010 he announced his decision to step down later in the year. He subsequently returned to parish ministry before retiring in 2019. References Anglican bishops of Ballarat 21st-century Anglican bishops in Australia Living people Year of birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Gill (priest)
Robin Morton Gill (born 18 July 1944) is a British Anglican priest, theologian, and academic, specialising in Christian ethics. Since 2012, he has been canon theologian of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar: he was acting dean from 2017 to 2020. He was William Leech Professor in Applied Theology at the University of Newcastle (1988–1992), and was then Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology (1992–2011) and Professor of Applied Theology (2011–2014) at the University of Kent. He has also served as a parish priest in the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal church, serving in the dioceses of Coventry, of Edinburgh, of Newcastle, and of Canterbury. Early life and education Gill was born on 18 July 1944. He was educated at Westminster School, an all-boys public school within the precincts of Westminster Abbey. He studied theology and trained for holy orders at King's College, London, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity (BD) degree and the Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Driver
Jeffrey William Driver (born 6 October 1951) is a retired Australian Anglican bishop. He is the former Archbishop of Adelaide and Metropolitan of South Australia in the Anglican Church of Australia. Early life Driver grew up in the New South Wales country town of Cowra. His theological education was undertaken through the Australian College of Theology. After a short career as a newspaper journalist he was ordained in 1977 and began his career as an assistant curate in Bathurst. He held incumbencies at Mid-Richmond and Jamison and was later Archdeacon of Young, New South Wales and also Rector of the parish of St Paul's Manuka in Canberra. Driver was Executive Director of St Mark's National Theological Centre in Canberra from 1995 to 1997, and founding Head of Charles Sturt University's School of Theology. In 2001, Driver was consecrated and appointed Bishop of Gippsland in eastern Victoria, a position he held until his translation to Adelaide in 2005. Driver holds a PhD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Society Of The Sacred Mission
The Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM), with the associated Company of the Sacred Mission, is an Anglican religious order founded in 1893 by Father Herbert Kelly, envisaged such that "members of the Society share a common life of prayer and fellowship in a variety of educational, pastoral and community activities". Its motto is ''Ad gloriam Dei in eius voluntate'' ("To the glory of God in his will"). Owing to the long association with Kelham, and the theological college there, the Society is often known colloquially as the "Kelham Fathers", although it has now become a mixed community for both men and women. There are three types of membership in the society: *professed members, who remain celibate and live in community, taking vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience (the Evangelical Counsels); *associate members, who also live or work in community, but do not take vows, and may be married; *companions, who do not normally live in community, and who take a single vow to "endeavo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Community Of The Ascension
The Community of the Ascension (known as CA and the Ascensionists) was an Anglican religious community for men in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia. It was the first male Anglican religious order to be successfully established in Australia, in 1921, and existed until it dissipated in 1940 and then formally dissolved in 1943. Early origins St John's Theological College, Melbourne was established in 1906, and was strongly Anglo-Catholic. In 1908, two students at St John's decided to form a religious community, the Association of the Divine Call, with three-year vows of celibacy. The two students were Maurice Richard Daustini Kelly and Gerard Kennedy Tucker. Tucker had previously studied for ordination at St Wilfrid's Theological College, Cressy. At the time (1906 to 1907), the warden of St Wilfred's was the Rev Nugent Kelly, the father of Maurice. Three other students joined. The establishment of the Association received a lukewarm response from Archbishop Lowther Clarke, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ayong
James Simon Ayong (born in a cave in Kumbun, West New Britain in 1944 – 5 April 2018) was the Anglican Archbishop of Papua New Guinea from 19 June 1996 to 2009. He was the first prelate in the church of Papua New Guinea to come from elsewhere in the country than the eastern Papuan heartland of the country's Anglican Church. Ayong served as a parish priest in rural and metropolitan Papua New Guinea and, unusually among indigenous Papua New Guinean clergy, studied overseas, in England. At the time of his birth Australian New Guinea (the northern half of eastern New Guinea and the New Guinea Islands) was under occupation by the forces of Japan during World War II and Japanese forces and Papuan tribesman sympathetic to the Japanese cause had recently executed the New Guinea Martyrs. Education In 1982, James Ayong earned his diploma in Theology from Newton College, in Papua New Guinea. He would earn a Bachelor of Theology from Martin Luther Seminary, in Lae. Martin Luther Seminary i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
