Walter Wade (priest)

The Rt Rev. (Sydney) Walter Wade, (21 March 1909 - 10 March 1976) was Suffragan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town from 1970 to 1976.^[1]

Wade was educated at King Edward VI School, Lichfield and Kelham Theological College; and ordained in 1934.^[2] After a curacy in Nottingham he held incumbencies at Kimberley and Upington. He was Archdeacon of Bechuanaland from 1954 to 1958; and of Kimberley from 1958 to 1963. He was Dean of Umtata from 1963 to 1967; and Archdeacon of Western Transvaal from 1967 until his elevation to the Episcopate. In 1975 he was appointed a Chaplain of the Order of St John.^[3]

Notes

1. ‘WADE, Rt Rev. (Sydney) Walter’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 Oct 2015
2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967-68 London: Oxford University Press 1967
3. London Gazette