Leslie Stradling, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Leslie Stradling

Anglican bishop

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1908

Date of Death: 08-Jan-1998

Profession: priest

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Leslie Stradling

  • Leslie Edward Stradling (11 February 1908 – 8 January 1998) was an Anglican bishop in three separate African dioceses during the mid-20th century. Born on 11 February 1908 and educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield and The Queen's College, Oxford; he was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1933 (11 June) and ordained a priest the next Trinity Sunday (27 May 1934) — both times by Richard Parsons, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral.
  • After a curacy at St Paul's, Lorrimore Square he was Vicar of St Luke's, Camberwell and then of St Anne's, Wandsworth before being appointed the Church’s youngest bishop in 1945.
  • He was consecrated a bishop on St James's Day 1945 (25 July), by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.
  • Translated from Masasi to be the first Bishop of South-West Tanganyika in 1952, his final post was as Bishop of Johannesburg. He died in 1998 in Cape Town.

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