St Pauls Bankstown 1968 consecration document

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. WHEREAS We did lately receive the Petition of the Reverend PERCY WILLIAM GEORGE TWINE Th. L., Licensed Minister in the Church of SAINT PAUL at BANKSTOWN with the parish annexed in the County of Cumberland and of the several residents and inhabitants in and about the said parish whose names are thereunto subscribed, praying that we would be pleased to consecrate the  building or edifice at BANKSTOWN erected at aforesaid upon a site vested in the Church of England Property Trust Diocese of Sydney to be named SAINT PAUL AND WHEREAS we have taken the said Petition unto our most serious consideration and have at the special request of the said Petitioners complied with the same. NOW THEREFORE WE, MARCUS  by Divine Providence ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY and METROPOLITAN of the Province of New South Wales, DO by virtue of our Ordinary and Episcopal authority separate and set apart the said building or edifice containing in length from East to West one hundred and seventeen feet and in breadth from North to South forty feet (inclusive of the exterior walls) from all profane and common uses and do hereby dedicate the same by the name of SAINT PAUL aforesaid, to God and Divine Worship, and do consecrate it for the celebration of Divine Worship therein according to the rites of the Church of England in Australia AND WE DO openly and publicly pronounce and declare that the said Church shall so continue for ever hereafter separated, dedicated and consecrated, by this our definitive sentence or final decree which we make and promulge in these writings SAVING and RESERVING unto us and our successors ARCHBISHOPS OF SYDNEY all Ordinary and Episcopal Jurisdiction rights and privileges. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF we have caused our Episcopal Seal to be hereunto affixed and have subscribed the same this third day of November, A.D. 1968, and of our Consecration the eleventh. 

REGISTERED at Sydney the day and year within written by me,  Registrar.   Archbishop of Sydney.
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