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Book review: The Dunedin Affair: The bishop who lost his see, edited by Bob Simmonds

Book review: The Dunedin Affair: The bishop who lost his see, edited by Bob Simmonds

Thursday, October 9, 2025
HARD-PRESSED bishops, swamped with paperwork, sometimes miss things. When George Augustus Selwyn arrived in New Zealand in 1842, his task was to create new dioceses and appoint new bishops to run them. Six sees were planned, and, by 1858, five wer...