Bruce Evans (bishop)

The Right Reverend
Bruce Read Evans
Bishop of Port Elizabeth
Church Anglican
Diocese Port Elizabeth
In office 1975 1993
Predecessor Philip Russell
Successor Eric Pike
Orders
Ordination 1957
Personal details
Born (1929-11-10)10 November 1929
Died 25 August 1993(1993-08-25) (aged 63)
Port Elizabeth

Bruce Read Evans (1929 – 1993) was an Anglican bishop[1] and author in the 20th century.

He was educated at King Edward School, Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand[2] and ordained in 1957.[3] He held curacies at Holy Trinity, Redhill, Surrey[4] and St Paul’s, Portman Square. He was Curate-in charge at St Luke’s, Diep River, Cape. He held incumbencies at Christ Church, Kenilworth, Cape Town and St John’s, Wynberg, Cape Town before ascending to the Episcopate[5] as the second Bishop of Port Elizabeth. He died in post.

Publsihed works

Among other books, he wrote I Will Heal their Land, 1974; The Earth is the Lord’s, 1975; Facing the New Challenges, 1978; and The Church and the Alternative Society, 1979[6]

Sources

  1. anglicandiocesepe
  2. “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory Lambeth, Church House, 1976, ISBN (invalid) 0108153674, alternate version: ISBN 0-19-200008-X, OCLC 25885092, OCLC 59162245.
  4. Church web site
  5. Wits Historical papers
  6. British Library website accessed 18:52 gmt 17 December 2010
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Philip Welsford Richmond Russell
Bishop of Port Elizabeth
1975-1993
Succeeded by
Eric Pike


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