Arthur Green (bishop)
Arthur Vincent Green (12 May 1857 – 24 September 1944) was an Australian Anglican bishop who founded two theological colleges.
Born in Albury, Surrey, he was the son of Eliza (Dutton) and Reverend Samuel Dutton Green. He grew up in Adelaide, Wales and Scotland and studied at Trinity College, Melbourne. He was ordained in 1880 and served as a curate at St Andrew’s, Brighton, and St Peter’s, Eastern Hill, Melbourne, before leading Holy Trinity, Maldon and St Paul’s, Geelong. He became Archdeacon of Ballarat and, in 1894, was consecrated as Bishop of Grafton and Armidale.
In 1898 Green founded St John’s College, Armidale, and served as its first Warden. In 1900 he was translated to Ballarat. In 1903 he founded St Aidan’s Theological College and began work on Christ Church Cathedral. He retired as bishop in 1915 and from 1920 taught theology at his old college.
His sister Florence helped fund the education of writer Henry Handel Richardson; in Richardson’s novel The Getting of Wisdom, Florence is depicted as Miss Isabella and Arthur as Rev Mr Shepherd. Florence later became the founding headmistress of the New England Girls’ School. Another sister, Agnes, was a religious in the Community of St. Denys in Warminster. Arthur Green died on 24 September 1944, aged 87.
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