Alfred Averill


Alfred Averill

Archbishop of New Zealand
Averill in 1929
DioceseAuckland
PredecessorChurchill Julius
Other post(s)Bishop of Waiapu
Personal details
Born
Alfred Walter Averill

7 October 1865
Staffordshire, England
Died6 July 1957(1957-07-06) (aged 91)
Christchurch, New Zealand
DenominationAnglicanism
ParentsHenry Alcock Averill & Sarah Ellen Wootton
SpouseMary Weir
ChildrenWalter Averill (priest)
Leslie Averill (physician)
Alma materSt John's College, Oxford
Ely Theological College

Alfred Walter Averill CMG (7 October 1865 – 6 July 1957) was the second Anglican Archbishop of New Zealand, from 1925 to 1940. He was also the fifth Anglican Bishop of Auckland whose episcopate spanned a 25-year period during the first half of the 20th century.[1]

  1. ^ "Most Rev. A. W. Averill Late Primate Of New Zealand". The Times. No. 53887. 8 July 1957. p. 10.