Arthur Wellesley Pain (21 August 1841 – 14 May 1920) was an Anglican bishop and the first Bishop of Gippsland from 1902 until 1917. Born in Felmersham and educated at

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, he was ordained in 1866. He began his career as

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of Holbrook, Suffolk before emigrating to

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two years later as incumbent of Cobbitty, New South Wales. His next appointment was as Vicar of Narellan, NSW then Rural Dean of

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. In 1883 he was appointed

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of St. John's, Darlinghurst, in East Sydney, and in 1893 chaplain to Saumarez Smith, Bishop of Sydney. From 1897 he was canon of

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. It was announced in April 1902 that Pain would be appointed the first Bishop of Gippsland, and his ordination to the episcopate came when he was consecrated the following month. The Times, 21 May 1902; p8; "Ecclesiastical Intelligence: Consecration of the first Bishop of Gippsland"

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1841 births People from the Borough of Bedford Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Anglican bishops of Gippsland 1920 deaths 20th-century Anglican bishops in Australia {{Australia-anglican-bishop-stub