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The Right Reverend
Bruce Evans
Bishop of Port Elizabeth
ChurchAnglican
DiocesePort Elizabeth
In office1975 – 1993
PredecessorPhilip Russell
SuccessorEric Pike
Orders
Ordination1957
Personal details
Born(1929-11-10)10 November 1929
Died25 August 1993(1993-08-25) (aged 63)
Port Elizabeth

Bruce Read Evans (1929 – 1993) was an Anglican bishop and author in the 20th century.

He was educated at King Edward School, Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand and ordained in 1957. He held curacies at Holy Trinity, Redhill, Surrey 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 his ordination to the episcopate as the second Bishop of Port Elizabeth. He died in post.

Published 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

Sources

  1. ":: The Anglican Diocese of Port Elizabeth - Parish Information ::". www.anglicandiocesepe.org.za. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  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. "htnew". htnew. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  5. "Historical Papers, Wits University". www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za. Retrieved 17 November 2017.
  6. British Library website accessed 18:52 gmt 17 December 2010
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded byPhilip Welsford Richmond Russell Bishop of Port Elizabeth
1975-1993
Succeeded byEric Pike
Anglican Bishops of Port Elizabeth


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