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‘SEEING A SRI LANKAN MAN BECOME ARCHBISHOP MADE ME WEEP by ANNE LIM Source:-eternitynews The night after Sri Lankan priest Kanishka Raffel was elected Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Jeri Jones Sparks woke up at 4am in pain and couldn’t get back to sleep. As the daughter of Tamil-speaking migrants from India, the Assistant Minister for Outreach at St James Anglican Church Croydon, in Sydney’s inner west, had been praying for Raffel in his quest to lead the Sydney diocese (region). Seeking distraction, Jeri watched the sermon he gave after his history-making inauguration and surprised herself at how emotional she became. “I just wept the entire time. I didn’t realise how meaningful it was to me to see a ‘brown uncle’ as Archbishop,” she tells Eternity. “It does mean a lot, it’s more than symbolism and it’s also a sign of hope of what the Anglican Church can be and makes me ...