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 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 (died in office of "African Sickness")
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)
- 11 June 1948[3] – after 1957[4]: Percy Jones, assistant bishop
1961–1981 Moses N.C.O. Scott (also Archbishop of West Africa, 1969–1981)

Bishops of Freetown

1981–?1994 Prince Eustace Thompson (died 1994)
1996–2013 Julius O. Prince Lynch [5][6]
2013–present Thomas Arnold Wilson (3rd bishop)

Curates of Freetown

1855-1858 Revd Francis Pocock, founder in 1868 of Monkton Combe School. Amongst the school's earliest pupils were young men from Freetown.

References

"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.
"Consecration at Canterbury". Church Times (#4454). 18 June 1948. p. 337. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 31 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
Africa South of the Sahara 2004. p. 985.
"Sierra Leone News: ANGLICANISM GLORIFIED!!!". Sierra Leone News. Retrieved 9 December 2015.

External links

Diocesan website

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[AH-1] "John Walmsley, Ninth Bishop of Sierra Leone". Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1923. Retrieved 9 December 2015.

[2] Buchanan, Colin. Historical Dictionary of Anglicanism. p. 601.

[3] "Consecration at Canterbury". Church Times (#4454). 18 June 1948. p. 337. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 31 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.

[5] Africa South of the Sahara 2004. p. 985.

[6] "Sierra Leone News: ANGLICANISM GLORIFIED!!!". Sierra Leone News. Retrieved 9 December 2015.