Alan Rogers (bishop)

Alan Francis Bright Rogers (1907–2003)^[1] was an Anglican Bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning over half a century.^[2]

Educated at Westminster City School, trained for the priesthood at King's College London and ordained in 1932, he began his career with a curacy at St Stephen's, Shepherds Bush.^[3] From 1934 he served the Anglican Church in Mauritius, firstly as a missionary priest then as Archdeacon of Mauritius. Returning to England he became Vicar of Twickenham followed by a spell as Rural Dean of Hampstead before appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of Mauritius in 1959.^[4] Translated to become Bishop of Fulham (a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of London with delegated responsibility from the Bishop of London for northern and central Europe) in 1966,^[5] his final appointment was a sideways move to become Bishop of Edmonton^[6] (another suffragan bishop of that Diocese, but actually ministering there) four years later. In retirement he continued to serve the church as an assistant bishop (in the Diocese of Peterborough and then the Kensington area of the London diocese) for a further quarter of a century.

References

1. ↑ NPG details
2. ↑ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
3. ↑ Parish web site
4. ↑ The Times, Monday, Jun 15, 1959; pg. 12; Issue 54487; col D Bishop Of Mauritius Appointment Of Canon A. F. B. Rogers
5. ↑ New Bishop Of Fulham The Times Saturday, Jul 09, 1966; pg. 10; Issue 56679; col C
6. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X