Cyril Swaby

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The Rt Rev John Cyril Emerson Swaby CBE was an Anglican Bishop of Jamaica in the third quarter of the 20th century.

He was born on 11 December 1905 and educated at Munro College, Jamaica and Durham University ^[1] and ordained in 1929.^[2] His first post was as a Curate at Brown's Town after which he held incumbencies at St Cyprian’s Highgate and then St Matthew’s, Kingston. From 1951 he was Archdeacon of South Middlesex and a decade later was promoted to be Suffragan Bishop of Kingston. After seven years he was promoted to be its Diocesan^[3] and served until his death on 21 April 1975.

Notes

↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
↑ Diocesan History

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Percival William Gibson	Bishop of Jamaica 1968 – 1975	Succeeded by Herbert Da Costa Edmondson

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

Persondata
Name	Swaby, John Cyril Emerson
Alternative names
Short description	Bishop of Jamaica
Date of birth	1905
Place of birth
Date of death	1975
Place of death

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