George Appleton CMG, MBE[1] (20 February 1902 – 28 August 1993) was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the twentieth century.[2][3]
He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge [4] and ordained in 1926. After a curacy at Stepney Parish Church [5] he spent 20 years in Burma as a SPG missionary (ending this part of his ministry as Archdeacon of Rangoon)[6] before returning to England. He was firstly vicar of Headstone[7] then rector of St Botolph's Aldgate.[8] In 1962 he became Archdeacon of London and a canon of St Paul's Cathedral and a year later Archbishop of Perth.[9] In 1969 he was translated to Jerusalem.[10] An eminent author,[11] he was awarded the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal by the Council of Christians and Jews in 1975.[12]
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| Preceded by Oswin Harvard Gibbs-Smith |
Archdeacon of London 1962 – 1963 |
Succeeded by Martin Gloster Sullivan |
| Preceded by Robert William Haines Moline |
Archbishop of Perth 1963 – 1969 |
Succeeded by Geoffrey Tremayne Sambell |
| Preceded by Angus Campbell MacInnes |
Archbishop of Jerusalem 1969 – 1974 |
Succeeded by Robert Stopford |
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