Sydney Gething Caulton (1895 – 23 August 1976) was a British bishop who spent much of his career in

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and the South Pacific. A graduate of

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, where he gained his M.A., Caulton was made a deacon in Liverpool in 1922 and ordained priest there the next year, and remained there until 1930 when he became a missionary in the Diocese of Melanesia. He arrived in New Zealand in 1937, with his wife and son, to become Vicar of Whakatane, and then Vicar of St Peter's,

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. He was inducted Vicar of St Mary's, and installed (''ex officio'') as Dean of Auckland in February 1946. On 2 February 1948, he was consecrated a bishop by

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, at St Mary's, and based himself in the

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(now

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). On completion of his time as

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(March 1954) he became

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of Northcote, then St George,

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(and Assistant Bishop of Auckland, 1955–1964) before his return to England as Assistant Bishop of Southwark (1964–68);National Archives
/ref> in 1969 he lived in Auckland again.Blain, Michael. ''Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932'' (2019) p. 268 (Accessed a
Project Canterbury
26 June 2019)

References

1895 births 1976 deaths Anglican bishops of Melanesia British Anglican missionaries Deans of Auckland 20th-century Anglican bishops in Oceania Alumni of St Chad's College, Durham New Zealand Anglican priests British emigrants to New Zealand Anglican missionaries in New Zealand Anglican missionaries in Vanuatu New Hebrides people {{Anglican-bishop-stub