Christopher Lipscomb

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The Rt Rev Christopher Lipscomb,^[1] DD^[2] was the inaugural^[3] Anglican ^[4] Bishop of Jamaica.^[5]

Lipscomb was baptized on 20 November 1781 at Staindrop, County Durham.^[6]Durham. He was educated at New College, Oxford, and ordained in 1816. He was vicar of Sutton Benger, Wiltshire from 1818 until his elevation to the Episcopate. He resigned his See in 1842 and died on 4 April 1843.^[7]

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Preceded by Inaugural appointment	Bishop of Jamaica 1824 – 1842	Succeeded by Aubrey George Spencer

Notes

↑ Some sources Lipscombe
↑ [OXFORD UNIVERSITY, APRIL 17 The Bury and Norwich Post: Or, Suffolk and Norfolk Telegraph, Essex, Cambridge, & Ely Intelligencer (Bury Saint Edmunds, England), Wednesday, April 21, 1824; Issue 2182]
↑ Anglican History
↑ Belize Anglican
↑ The Times, Monday, Nov 29, 1824; pg. 2; Issue 12510; col E Ecclesiastical Intelligence
↑ Gordon Goodwin, ‘Lipscomb, William (1754–1842)’, rev. Rebecca Mills, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16753, accessed 11 Nov 2013]
↑ Anglican Diocese of Jamaica

v t e Bishops of Jamaica

Christopher Lipscomb Aubrey Spencer Reginald Courtenay William Tozer Enos Nuttall George de Carteret William Hardie Basil Dale Percival Gibson Cyril Swaby Herbert Edmondson Neville De Souza Alfred Reid

v t e Church in the Province of the West Indies

Bishop of Barbados Anglican Diocese of Belize Diocese of Guyana Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands Bishop of Nassau and The Bahamas Bishop of North East Caribbean and Aruba Diocese of Trinidad and Tobago Diocese of the Windward Islands

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