Randolph George

The Right Reverend Randolph Oswald George has been the Bishop of Guyana[1] since 1980.[2] Born in 1924 and educated at Codrington College, Barbados, after a curacy at St Peter Barbados he spent a decade in England. Successively he was Curate at Leigh, Ardwick and Lavender Hill[3] before returning to become Chaplain to the Bishop of Trinidad. From there he became Rector of Couva then All Saints, Port of Spain before being elected to the Deanery of the Anglican Diocese of Guyana in 1971. Promoted to be the Suffragan Bishop[4] of Stabroek[5] in 1976, four years later he became Bishop -a position he held until 2009.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Anglican Communion
  2. ↑ Diocesan history
  3. ↑ Crockford's clerical directory1976 Lambeth, Church House ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  4. ↑ Details of Suffragan Bishopic
  5. ↑ The name by which Guyana was known until 1822 Encyclopædia Britannica 1955 edn Vol 10 p 955
  6. ↑ Staebrook News


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