St John’s Theological College class photographs As part of our endeavour to showcase some of the incredible photographs which can be found in our archival collection, the St John’s Theological College class photographs have been added to Pūmotomoto. The St John’s College class photographs were first taken around 1896. These… Read More »St John’s Theological College Class Photographs
Papers Past has just added the Maori Anglican newspapers ‘He Kupu Whakamarama’ and ‘Te Pipiwharauroa’. These papers were edited by then Reverend Frederick Augustus Bennett between 1898 and 1913. Bennett was born at Lake Rotorua in 1871 and in 1883 was awarded a scholarship to St Stephen’s Native Boys School… Read More »He Kupu Whakamarama and Te Pipiwharauroa at Papers Past
The Vast Sarah Selwyn Music Collection One of the projects that the John Kinder Theological Library has embarked upon is cataloguing the Sarah Selwyn Music Collection. Sarah Selwyn, nee Richardson, was the wife of the first Anglican bishop of New Zealand, Bishop George August Selwyn, and she left a prolific… Read More »The Sarah Selwyn Music Collection
John King’s Bible is a link to the very earliest days of the Church Missionary Society in New Zealand The Kinder Library records of the Church Missionary Society’s earliest days in New Zealand, have been strengthened with the recent gift of John King’s Bible by descendants of John King, for… Read More »Gifted: John King’s Bible
Māori New Testament and its Revision The New Testament in Māori was first published by William Colenso at Paihia in 1838. 5,000 copies were produced of this first edition, which was translated mainly by William Williams. The second edition of the complete New Testament in Māori, published in 1841, was… Read More »Revision of the Māori New Testament, St Matthew and St Mark, 1843
When the book ‘Origines Britannicae’ was found in an upright piano We occasionally gratefully receive donations of pre-1800 books, which move into air-conditioned comfort in our special collections room. You often wonder about the journey that led them to our door and what interesting tales they could tell. Luckily for… Read More »‘Origines Britannicae’ Found in an Upright Piano
The story of Campbell West-Watson Campbell West-Watson was affectionately known as the “Boy Bishop” when he was ordained at just 32 years of age by Bishop of Barrow-in-Furness in 1909. In 1925 he was appointed Bishop of Christchurch, making the long journey to New Zealand with his family. After the… Read More »The Papers of Campbell West-Watson and Post-war Japan in 1947
The paper-knife is one of the only surviving artefacts from Mrs Calder’s Bible Class “One of the most difficult problems a parish clergyman has to solve is, how to interest the elder boys of a Sunday School in the work of God’s Church” proclaims an article from the November 1893… Read More »Mrs Calder’s Bible Class
The adventures of the chapel bell at St John’s College The chapel bell, still in use at St John’s College, was formed from two cracked and disused church bells sent to England to be reforged into one. One of these was the original bell from when the College was established… Read More »The Chapel Bell at St John’s College
Was Bishop George Augustus Selwyn ever the bishop of Sydney? It is a well-known fact that Bishop George Augustus Selwyn, Bishop of New Zealand initially declined the Bishopric of Lichfield, England, but it is little known that he had previously declined appointment as Metropolitan of the Australian Church. The… Read More »Selwyn as Bishop of Sydney
