Cyril Swaby

The Rt Rev John Cyril Emerson Swaby , CBE was an Anglican Bishop of Jamaica in the third quarter of the 20th century. He was born on 11 December 1905 and educated at Munro College, Jamaica and Durham University ^[1] and ordained in 1929 ^[2]. His first post was as a Curate at Brown's Town after which he held incumbencies at St Cyprian’s Highgate and then St Matthew’s, Kingston. From 1951 he was Archdeacon of South Middlesex and a decade later was promoted to be Suffragan Bishop of Kingston. After seven years he was promoted to be its Diocesan^[3] and served until his death on 21 April 1975.

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