Cecil Patterson

The Rt Rev Cecil John Patterson, CBE,^[1] CMG, CFR, DD was an Anglican Bishop in the mid part of the 20th century.
He was born on 9 January 1908, educated at St Paul's ^[2] and St Catharine's College, Cambridge and ordained in 1932.^[3] He was a Curate at Holy Innocents, Kingsbury^[4] and then a Missionary in south Nigeria before his elevation to the Episcopate as Assistant Bishop (1942) then Bishop on the Niger (1945). In 1961 he became Archbishop of the West Africa.^[5] He retired in 1969 and died on 11 April 1992. His grave is in Richmond Cemetery.^[6]

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v t e Bishops on the Niger Herbert Tugwell Bertram Lasbrey Cecil Patterson Jonathan Onyemelukwe Maxwell Anikwenwa

v t e Archbishops of West Africa Leslie Vining James Horstead Cecil Patterson Moses Scott Ishmael Mills Le-Marie George Browne Robert Okine Justice Akrofi Solomon Tilewa Johnson

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Name	Patterson, Cecil John
Alternative names
Short description	Nigerien bishop
Date of birth	1908
Place of birth
Date of death	1992
Place of death