John Paul Burrough MA, MBE,[1] (5 May 1916 – 27 January 2003) was Bishop of Mashonaland[2] from 1968[3] to 1981. He was born into an ecclesiastical family[4] on 5 May 1916 and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and St Edmund Hall, Oxford [5]. When war came he was commissioned [6] into the Royal Signals and later became a Prisoner of War in Malaya. Ordained in 1951[7], his first post was a curacy in Aldershot. After this he was a Missionary Priest in Korea[8] and then (his final post before elevation to the Episcopate[9]) Anglican Chaplain to Overseas Peoples in Birmingham. A Sub-Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem he died on 27 January 2003[10]
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| Preceded by Cecil William Alderson |
Bishop of Mashonaland 1968–1981 |
Succeeded by Peter Hatendi |
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