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The Most Reverend George Appleton CMG, MBE
Archbishop in Jerusalem

Church	Anglican Communion
Province	Jerusalem and the Middle East
Diocese	Jerusalem
In office	1969–1974
Predecessor	Campbell MacInnes
Successor	Robert Stopford
Previous post(s)	Archbishop of Perth (1963–1969) Archdeacon of London, Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of London and Canon Residentiary of St Paul's Cathedral (1962–1963)
Orders
Ordination	1925 (as deacon) by Arthur Winnington-Ingram 1926 (as priest) by William Perrin
Consecration	24 June 1963 by Michael Ramsey
Personal details
Born	(1902-02-20)20 February 1902 Windsor, Berkshire, England
Died	28 August 1993(1993-08-28) (aged 91)
Nationality	English
Denomination	Anglicanism
Parents	Thomas George Appleton Lily, née Cock
Spouse	Marjorie (Madge) (m. 1929; died 1980)
Children	3
Alma mater	Selwyn College, Cambridge St Augustine's College, Canterbury
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George Frederick Appleton, CMG, MBE (20 February 1902 – 28 August 1993) was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the twentieth century and a writer.

Life

Born in Windsor, Berkshire to Thomas George Appleton and Lily Cock, Appleton was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he gained his B.A. in 1924, followed by his M.A. in 1929. Meanwhile, he trained at St Augustine's College, Canterbury, subsequently he was ordained a deacon in 1925 and a priest at St Dunstan's, Stepney, the Stepney parish church, in 1926.

After the curacy, Appleton spent the next 20 years in Burma as a SPG missionary, ending this part of his ministry as Archdeacon of Rangoon before returning to England. He was next vicar of Headstone then rector of St Botolph's Aldgate.

He described the war-time experience of the Anglican Church in Burma in a 1946 booklet for SPG, The War and After: Burma. Before the Europeans left Burma in the face of the invading Japanese, Appleton put into place plans for Holy Communion once stores of wafers and wine had run out: local congregations would use boiled rice and tea or water or coconut milk as the elements.

In 1962, he became Archdeacon of London and a canon of St Paul's Cathedral and a year later Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Australia. In 1969 he was translated to Jerusalem. He retired in 1974, and thereafter served as Assistant Curate at St Michael, Cornhill in the Diocese of London.

A prominent writer, he was awarded the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal by the Council of Christians and Jews in 1975.

Personal life

Appleton was married to Marjorie (Madge) in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Yangon (then Rangoon) in 1929. The couple had three children, Margaret, Timothy and Rachel. His wife died on 16 April 1980. He died on 28 August 1993.

Works

Glad Encounter. SPCK Publishing, 1978. ISBN 0281036071
Daily prayer and praise. Westminster Press, 1978. ISBN 0664242510.
Glimpses of Faith. Mowbray, 1982. ISBN 0264667883
Prayers from a Troubled Heart. Fortress Pr, 1983. ISBN 0800617118.
George Appleton (1984). The Quiet Heart: Prayers and meditations for each day of the year. Fortress Press. ISBN 978-0-8006-1789-9.
Entry into Life: Gospel Of Death. Darton, Longman Todd, 1985. ISBN 0232516006
The Heart of the Bible. HarperCollins, 1986. ISBN 0-00-626797-1
Journey for a Soul. 1986, ASIN B000S5KMS2.
Jerusalem Prayers for the World Today. SPCK Publishing, 1986. ISBN 0281027757.
Understanding The Psalms. Continuum International Pub., 1988. ISBN 0264669231.
George Appleton (1989). Hour of Glory: Meditations on the Passion. Augsburg. ISBN 978-0-8066-2438-9.
Unfinished: George Appleton Remembers and Reflects. HarperCollins, 1990. ISBN 0-00-215379-3.
George Appleton, ed. (2009). The Oxford Book of Prayer. Oxford: OUP. ISBN 978-0-19-956123-0. (first published by OUP 1985 ISBN 0-19-213222-9)

References

Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem Archived 8 August 2009 at the Wayback Machine
^ "The Most Reverend George Appleton: The Fourth Archbishop of Perth (1963–1969)". Anglican Diocese of Perth. Archived from the original on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
Who Was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
Crockford's Clerical Directory; 1940–41. London: OUP, 1941
Project Canterbury- Anglicanism in Burma
Church web-site
Mundas
http://anglicanhistory.org/asia/burma/appleton1946/, p 14
The Times, 14 March 1963; pg. 11; Issue 55649; col G Post For Canon of St. Paul's
New Archbishop in Jerusalem The Times 14 November 1968; pg. 12; Issue 57408; col F
Amongst others he wrote "John's Witness to Jesus", 1955; " On the Eightfold Path", 1961; "Journey for a Soul", 1974; " Glimpses of Faith", 1982; and "The Heart of the Bible" 1989 > British Library website. Retrieved 17:18 GMT 17 July 2009
Who was Who (ibid)

External links

Portraits of George Appleton at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded byOswin Gibbs-Smith	Archdeacon of London 1962–1963	Succeeded byMartin Sullivan
Preceded byRobert Moline	Archbishop of Perth 1963–1969	Succeeded byGeoffrey Sambell
Preceded byCampbell MacInnes	Archbishop of Jerusalem 1969–1974	Succeeded byRobert Stopford

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