Canon Frank CoaldrakePrint Page
The stained glass window commemorates Canon Frank Coaldrake, a priest and missionary, who was elected Archbishop of Brisbane in July 1970.
In 1960 Coaldrake was made a canon of All Souls Quetta Memorial Cathedral, Thursday Island. Convinced that, in mission work with Aborigines, the goal of 'assimilation' was harmfully racist, he persuaded the A.B.M. to adopt 'acceptance' as a guiding principle and to appoint an Aborigine as policy adviser in 1969.
Celebrated in the Church as 'a great missionary statesman of prophetic vision', on 10 July 1970 Coaldrake became the first Australian-born priest to be elected archbishop of Brisbane. Before he could be consecrated, he died on 22 July in Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney
Location
Address: | 373 Ann Street, St John`s Cathedral, Brisbane, 4000 |
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State: | QLD |
Area: | AUS |
GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -27.463707 Long: 153.029816 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
Monument Type: | Window |
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Monument Theme: | People |
Sub-Theme: | Religion |
Link: | http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/adbonli… |
Dedication
Plaque :
This window is dedicated to the memory of Canon Frank William Coaldrake, M.A., Th. L.,
Priest and Missionary
Born Brisbane 12th March 1912;
Elected Archbishop of Brisbane
10th July 1970
Died Sydney, 22nd July, 1970.