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	10 November 1929
Died	25 August 1993 (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