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Anglicanism in Papua New Guinea


A History of the New Guinea Mission
By Copland King
Sydney: , 1899.

Mankind and the Church
Being an Attempt to Estimate the Contribution of Great Races to the Fulness of the Church of God, by Seven Bishops; Edited with an Introduction by the Right Rev. H. H. Montgomery.
London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907.

I. The Papuans, a People of the South Pacific
The Right Rev. M. J. Stone-Wigg, D.D., Bishop of New Guinea

Chapter I. The Village Community in Papua

Chapter II. Characteristics of the Papuan

Chapter III. The Future of the Papuan

Albert Maclaren: Pioneer Missionary in New Guinea
By Frances M. Synge
London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1908.

A Brief Account of Church Work in N.E. British New Guinea.
London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1908.

Story of Ganuganuana.
M.J. Stone-Wigg.
London: , 1908.

Papuan Fairy Tales
By Annie Ker.
London: , 1910.

Theological Terms in Native Languages
By the Rev. Copland King
Sydney: D.S. Ford, 1913.

Twenty-One Years in Papua: A History of the English Church Mission in New Guinea (1891-1912)
By Arthur Kent Chignell, Priest of the New Guinea Mission
Milwaukee: The Young Churchman, 1913.

Francis Tutuana
By Henry Newton
London: , 1915.

An Outpost in Papua
By Arthur Kent Chignell, with a preface by the Archbishop of Brisbane.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1915.

Gertrude Robson: An Appreciation and an Appeal
Sydney: Anglican Board of Missions, [1916].

From Samarai to Ambasi in the "Whitkirk"
An Account of a Visit to the New Guinea Mission in 1916.
By J. O. Feetham.
Sydney: D. S. Ford, 1917.

Round about the Torres Straits
By the Right Rev. Gilbert White, D.D.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1917.

Florence Buchanan: The Little Deaconess of the South Seas
By Emlyn Jones
New York: The Macmillan Co., 1921.
London: The Central Board of Missions, 1921.

Francis de Sales Buchanan: Missionary in New Guinea
A Memoir by Gilbert White, D.D.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1923
New York and Toronto: The Macmillan Co., 1923.

Papua for Christ.
By J. W. Burton.
Sydney: , 1926.

A Pioneer of Papua: Being the Life of the Rev. Copland King
By the Right Rev. Gilbert White, D.D.
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1929.

Planting the Cross in Papua
By Henry Newton
Sydney: Australian Board of Missions, 1931.

A New Venture into the Unknown
No Author.
No place: no publisher, 1935.
[Booklet produced by the Melanesian Mission on their proposed mission to the Kukukuku people of New Guinea]

New Guinea Reminiscences
By Fred Rennels (Captain of the Diocese of New Guinea ship, The Maclaren King, 1923-1938).
Typescript manuscript dated 1974 in possession of Diocese of Brisbane Archives. Reproduced online with permission.

An Account of the Consecration of the Cathedral Church of Ss Peter and Paul, Dogura, Papua, on Sunday, October 29, 1939.
Written by The Bishop of New Guinea, The Right Reverend Philip Nigel Warrington Strong
From the Australian Church Quarterly, volume 5, number 1, March 30, 1940.

Message to Mission Staff, 31 January, 1942 [Radio Broadcast]
By Philip Strong, Bishop of New Guinea
From The New Guinea Diaries of Philip Strong, 1936-1945, edited by David Wetherell, Appendix B, pages 222-223.

Letter from the Bishop of New Guinea
By Philip Strong
Sydney: Anglican Board of Missions, 1943

Among the Ruins: New Guinea Epic
By Arthur Bell
Sydney: Australian Board of Missions, 1943.

South Sea Epic: The War and the Church in New Guinea 1939-1943
A Record of Events in the Anglican Diocese of New Guinea between the Years 1939 and 1943
Compiled by Ruth Henrich
London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, 1944.

Among the Ruins: The Story of the New Guinea Martyrs
By Arthur Bell
Sydney: Australian Board of Missions, 1946.

A Visit to the Diocese of New Guinea in the first Post-War Year.
By the Right Reverend G. H. Cranswick
Sydney: Australian Board of Missions, 1946.

The Diocese of New Guinea in 1946: The First Year after the Close of Hostilities with Japan
By the Right Reverend G. H. Cranswick
Sydney: Australian Board of Missions, 1946.

"Out of Great Tribulation."
The Presidential Address and Charge of The Right Reverend Philip Nigel Warrington Strong M.A., Bishop of New Guinea to his Diocesan Conference at Dogura, Papua on Monday June 30th 1947.

Part I. Review
Part II. The Diocese in Retrospect
Part III. Looking Forward

The Consecration of Bishop David Hand.
From Australian Board of Missions Review, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 9, September 1, 1950, pages 134-137.

Awakening: History of the New Guinea Mission
By J.W.S. Tomlin
London: , 1951.

Bishop's Charge. Dogura, 1956.
By Philip N. W. Strong.
Dogura: Printed by Papuans, 1956.

Flood Tide in the Pacific: Church and Community Cascade into a New Age.
By Frank William Coaldrake
Stanmore, New South Wales: Australian Board of Missions of the Church of England in Australia, [1963].

Faithful unto Death: The Story of the New Guinea Martyrs.
By E. C. Rowland.
Stanmore, New South Wales: Australian Board of Missions, 1964.

Sermon at the Thanksgiving Mass for the Life and Work of Archbishop John Wallace Chisholm.
By Philip Strong.
From One Bread: The Bulletin of the Diocese of the New Hebrides, No. 6, July 1975, pages 4-7.

Reluctant Mission: The Anglican Church in Papua New Guinea 1891-1942
By David Wetherell
St. Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press, c1977.

The Good Shepherd: Bishop Strong and the New Guinea Martyrs, Being a Sermon Preached in Commemoration of the Martyrs of New Guinea
By the Most Reverend Sir Philip Strong KBE CMG CStJ DD MA ThD formerly Primate of Australia and Bishop of New Guinea 1936-1962
At the Parish of Saint Peter, Melbourne on the Festival of the New Guinea Martyrs 2 September 1981.
Published at Melbourne by St Peter's Bookroom, 1983.

Maisin Christianity: An Ethnography of the Contemporary Religion of a Seaboard Melanesian People
By John Barker
A Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Graduate Studies (Department of Anthropology and Sociology) University of British Columbia, 1985 (1984)

Historical Note on the Diocese of Melanesia and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea (1885-1949).
By the Reverend Michael Blain in collaboration with the Right Reverend Dr. Terry Brown. 2008.

The Claim of New Guinea
Sydney: Anglican Board of Missions, no date.

Work in the Mandated Territory.
By F. R. Bishop.
[Sydney:] Australian Board of Missions, no date.

Proposed New Diocese in Northern Melanesia.
Sydney: D. S. Ford for the Australian Board of Missions, no date.


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