Anglican Diocese of Freetown
The Anglican Diocese of Freetown (Sierra Leone) is a diocese of the Church of the Province of West Africa, a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The cathedral of the diocese is St. George's Cathedral, Freetown, Sierra Leone, which was built between 1817 and 1828.
The current diocese, along with the Anglican Diocese of Bo, was formed in 1981 by the partition of the previous Diocese of Sierra Leone, which had been established in 1852. The diocese of Sierra Leone, together with the dioceses of Niger, Accra, Lagos and the Diocese of Gambia and the River Pongas, had been formed, with some local resistance, into the Province of West Africa in 1951.[1][2]
The current (2015) Bishop of Freetown is the Right Reverend Thomas Arnold Ikunika Wilson, the third Bishop of the Diocese.
Bishops of Sierra Leone
- 1852–1854 Owen Vidal (1st bishop, died at sea, 1854) [1]
- 1855–1857 John Weeks
- 1857–1860 John Bowen (died in office of Yellow Fever)
- 1860–1869 Edward Beckles
- 1870-1882 Henry Cheetham
- 1883–1897 Graham Ingham
- 1897–1901 John Taylor Smith
- 1902–1909 Edmund Elwin
- 1910–1921 John Walmsley
- 1923–1936 George Wright (afterwards Bishop of North Africa,1936)
- 1936–1961 James L.C. Horstead (also Archbishop of West Africa, 1955–1961)
- 1961–1981 Moses N.C.O. Scott (also Archbishop of West Africa, 1969–1981)
Bishops of Freetown
- 1981–?1994 Prince Eustace Shokellu Thompson (died 1994)
- 1996–2013 Julius O. Prince Lynch [3][4]
- 2013–present Thomas Arnold Ikunika Wilson (3rd bishop)
References
- 1 2 "John Walmsley, Ninth Bishop of Sierra Leone". Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1923. Retrieved 9 December 2015.
- ↑ Buchanan, Colin. Historical Dictionary of Anglicanism. p. 601.
- ↑ Africa South of the Sahara 2004. p. 985.
- ↑ "Sierra Leone News: ANGLICANISM GLORIFIED!!!". Sierra Leone News. Retrieved 9 December 2015.