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Anglican Archbishop Kanishka Raffel-by Michael Roberts Source:Thuppahis Jordan Baker in Sydney Morning Herald, 5 August 2022, where the title runs thus: —“Charming and unapologetic: Sydney’s Anglican archbishop isn’t afraid to be out of step with the times” Kanishka Raffel’s election as Archbishop of Sydney broke the mould. His predecessors are all of European descent; his heritage is Sri Lankan. Many of those who went before him were sons of Sydney’s Anglican dynasties, and attended its sandstone schools; he moved to Australia as a boy and went to Carlingford High. Anglican Archbishop Kanishka Raffel was born a Buddhist. CREDIT:LOUIE DOUVIS But the most unusual thing about Raffel, in the annals of Christian archbishops, is that for the first 21 years of his life he was a Buddhist. He meditated, chanted Buddhist prayers, and went to the temple. He watched his mother – a doctor, who was widowed young – perform acts of charity to accrue merit for her late husband. But ...