Education
He was educated at King"s College, London and Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor in 1869 and Master of Arts in 1871.
He was educated at King"s College, London and Worcester College, Oxford, where he graduated Bachelor in 1869 and Master of Arts in 1871.
He was ordained a deacon in 1871 and priest in 1872. He was Curate, firstly at Saint Giles, Norwich (1871) and subsequently at Saint Michael"s, South Brent, Somerset (subsequently renamed "Brent Knoll" to avoid confusion with the village of the same name in Devonshire). Julius then became Vicar at Saint Mary"s, Shapwick, Somerset, a post retained until 1878 and following which he was appointed to the cure of Holy Trinity, Islington.
In 1884 he left England for Australia to become Archdeacon for the diocese of Ballarat, Victoria, a post he held until 1890.
In 1889 he was nominated to the Diocese of Christchurch, New Zealand, and became the second Bishop of Christchurch in 1890. He was active in completing the Christchurch Cathedral, and in support for education, which is remembered in the Bishop Julius Hostel for women students.
In 1922, he was made the first Primate and Archbishop of New Zealand. He retired in 1925.
Churchill Julius was born in Richmond Palace, Surrey, England in 1847, one of two sons born to Doctor Frederick Gilder Julius (whose father had been doctor to King William IV) and Ellen Hannah Smith.
He died in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1938.
Julius died on 1 September 1938 and was buried at Linwood Cemetery two days later.