Michael Eldon

The Rt Rev Michael Hartley Eldon was an Anglican Bishop in the last third of the 20th century.[1]
Born on 8 August 1931 [2] and educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge he was ordained in 1955.[3] After curacies in Nassau he spent nine years on Grand Bahama, rising in time to be Archdeacon of the island. In 1971 he was appointed Suffragan Bishop of New Providence[4] and a year later the first Bahamian[5] Bishop of Nassau,[6] resigning 24 years later.

Notes

  1. ^ Anglican Diocese of the Bahamas
  2. ^ St George’s, Nassau web-site
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0108153674
  4. ^ The Times, Saturday, Feb 26, 1972; pg. 4; Issue 58412; col B Church News
  5. ^ Nassau Guardian
  6. ^ Anglican church in the Bahamas
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Bernard Markham
Bishop of Nassau
1972 –1996
Succeeded by
Drexel Gomez