George Briggs (bishop), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Bishop of the Seychelles
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About George Briggs (bishop)
- George Cardell Briggs (6 September 1910 – 15 March 2004) was the first Bishop of The SeychellesBorn in Warrington, Briggs was educated at Worksop College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
- After studying at Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1935.
- He was a curate of St Alban’s Stockport until 1937 when he became a missionary priest in the Diocese of Masabi, Tanzania.
- He was the Archdeacon of Newala from 1955 to 1964 and then Rector of St Alban’s Dar-es-Salaam until 1969 when he became Warden of St Cyprian’s Theological College, Masasi, his last post before ordination to the episcopate.
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