Arthur Pain

Not to be confused with Arthur Payne.

Arthur Wellesley Pain (21 August 1841 – 14 May 1920) was an Anglican bishop and the first Bishop of Gippsland from 1902 until 1917.^[1]

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Born in Felmersham and educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge,^[2] he was ordained in 1866.^[3] He began his career as curate of Holbrook, Suffolk before emigrating to Australia two years later as incumbent of Cobbitty, New South Wales.^[4] His next appointment was as Vicar of Narellan, NSW then Rural Dean of Camden. In 1883 he was appointed rector of St. John's, Darlinghurst, in East Sydney, and in 1893 chaplain to Saumarez Smith, Bishop of Sydney. From 1897 he was canon of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney.^[5]

It was announced in April 1902 that Pain would be appointed the first Bishop of Gippsland,^[5] and his ordination to the episcopate came when he was consecrated the following month.^[6][7]

Notes

1. "Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
2. "Pain, Arthur Wellesley (PN862AW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, Hamilton & Co 1889
4. "In the Master's service for 52 years in Australia, Arthur Wellesley Pain", Pain, A.F: NSW, Belrose, 1981, ISBN 0-9593239-0-2
5. "Ecclesiastical intelligence". The Times. No. 36751. London. 25 April 1902. p. 9.
6. Diocese of Gippsland web site Archived 13 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
7. The Times, 21 May 1902; p8; "Ecclesiastical Intelligence: Consecration of the first Bishop of Gippsland"

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Preceded by Inaugural appointment	Bishop of Gippsland 1902 –1917	Succeeded by George Harvard Cranswick