Misplaced Pages

Lewis Evans (bishop)

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
(Redirected from Edward Lewis Evans) Bishop of Barbados from 1960 to 1971

The Rt Rev Edward Lewis Evans (1904–1996) was Bishop of Barbados from 1960 until 1971.

He was born in 1904 and educated at Tonbridge School. He was ordained in 1938 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Mary's, Prittlewell followed by the post of Warden of St Peter's Theological College, Jamaica. He was successively Rector of Kingston Parish Church, Archdeacon of Surrey and then Bishop Suffragan of Kingston before his translation to Barbados. A noted author, he died on 30 December 1996.

Notes and references

  1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76. London: Oxford University Press, 1976. ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  2. “Who was Who” 1897–1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  3. Ecclesiastical News Consecration Of Bishop Of Kingston, Jamaica The Times Saturday, 6 April 1957; pg. 8; Issue 53809; col D
  4. National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  5. Amongst others he wrote "A History of the Diocese of Jamaica" (1977) and "Legends of West Indian Saints" (1984) > British Library web site accessed 19:48 GMT Thursday 6 May 2010
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded byGay Lisle Griffith Mandeville Bishop of Barbados
1960–1971
Succeeded byDrexel Wellington Gomez
Bishops of Barbados and of Barbados and the Windward Islands
* simultaneously Bishop of the Windward Islands, as Bishop of Barbados and the Windward Islands (1877–1927)
Church in the Province of the West Indies


Stub icon

This Barbadian biographical article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This article about a United Kingdom bishop is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: