Adelaide's Baptist Bishop |
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| Title : | Adelaide's Baptist Bishop |
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| Source : | Baptist record of South Australia, 15 November 1923 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1923 | ||
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Silas Mead was known as 'the Baptist Bishop' of Adelaide. He had been convinced to come to Adelaide in 1861 by prominent Baptists, including George Fife Angas, to assist in establishing a central Baptist church in the city. The church was built in Flinders Street and through Mead's leadership quickly grew in membership. Silas Mead was a gifted organiser and leader, and was largely responsible for the rapid growth of the Baptist Church in South Australia during the next 20 years. He was also strongly in favour of ecumenical movements, seeking to unite the Christian churches more closely. Mead left Adelaide to become principal of a London missionary college in 1897, but returned to Australia in 1901. He died in 1909. |
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| Related names : | Angas, George Fife, 1789-1879 Mead, Silas, 1834-1909 Baptist Church in South Australia Flinders Street Baptist Church (Adelaide, S. Aust.) |
| Further reading : | Dickey, Brian, ed. Australian dictionary of evangelical biography, Sydney: Evangelical History Association, 1994 Flinders Street Baptist Church. Flinders Street Baptist Church: jubilee souvenir, 1861-1911, Adelaide, S. Aust.: The Church, 1911 Hughes, H. Escourt. Our first hundred years: the Baptist Church of South Australia, Adelaide: S.A. Baptist Union, 1937 Mead family, Personal papers, 1864-1988, PRG 1283 |
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