Norris, Bishop of North China, has been accepted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Rev. T. A. Scott, at present Bishop of Shantung, has been appointed to succeed him.
One of the best known figures in North China, the Rt. Rev. Francis Lushington Norris is 75 years of age. Ordained in 1887, he spent two years as a curate at Tewkesbury, Gloucesters hire, and went to Peking as an SP.G. missionary in 1889. He is one of the few survivors of the Legation siege during the Boxer uprising. He has been Bishop of North China since 1914.
The Rt. Rev. Thomas Arnold Scott has been Bishop of Shantung since 1921. He came to North China as an S. P. G. missionary in 1908, and was appointed Principal of the Church of England School Peking, in 1913—Reuter.
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