Robert Mercer

Robert William Stanley Mercer CR was the fourth Bishop of Matabeleland.

Born on 10 January 1935, he was educated at Grey School, Port Elizabeth and St Paul's Theological College, Grahamstown.^[1]^[2] Ordained as a deacon in 1959 and as a priest a year later, his first post was as a curate at Hillside, Bulawayo. After time at St Teilo’s Carmarthen he returned to his homeland but was deported in 1970. He was then chaplain of St Augustine's School, Penhalonga and then rector of Borrowdale, Harare. He was ordained as a bishop in 1977. From 1988 to 2005 he was the metropolitan bishop of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada.^[3] Though retired to England, he remains a member of the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada's house of bishops.

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Preceded by Stanley Mark Wood	Bishop of Matabeleland 1977 – 1987	Succeeded by Theo Naledi

References

^ School website
^ Who’s Who, (London, A & C Black, 2008), ISBN 9780713672576
^ The House of Bishops - ACC/C

Bishops of Matabeleland

William James Hughes • Kenneth John Fraser Skelton • Stanley Mark Wood • Robert William Stanley Mercer • Theo Naledi • Wilson Timothy Sitshebo • Cleophas Lunga •

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Name	Mercer, Robert William Stanley
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