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Anglicanism and Sanctity: The Diocese of Perth and the Making of a ‘Local Saint’ in 1984
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 January 2016
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On 23 February 1984, the bishops of the Anglican Province of Western Australia signed and sealed a document promulgating the Venerable John Ramsden Wollaston a local saint and hero of the Anglican Communion in accordance with Resolutions 77–80 of the Lambeth Conference 1958. These four resolutions had allowed national or provincial Anglican Churches to add to the Calendar of the Saints to permit ‘supplementary commemorations for local use’ according to the following principles where they were extra-scriptural persons. They had to be individuals ‘whose historical character and devotion are beyond doubt’; ‘revisions should be few and without controversy’; and such additions ‘should normally result from a wide-spread desire expressed in the region concerned over a reasonable period of time’.
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1 Perth, Diocese of Perth Archives, ‘The Promulgation of John Ramsden Wollaston’, 23 February 1984.
2 Lambeth Conference 1958, Resolutions 77–80, ‘The Book of Common Prayer — The Commemoration of Saints and Heroes of the Christian Church in the Anglican Communion’, The Lambeth Conference Official Website (2008), <http://www.lambethconference.org/resolutions/1958/1958-77.cfm>, accessed 18 June 2009.
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