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Basil Peacey
Basil William Peacey (1889–1969) was the fourth Anglican Diocese of Lebombo, Bishop of Lebombo from 1929 until 1935. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Leeds University. After a period of study at the College of the Resurrection, College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, Peacey was ordained in 1912. His first post was as a Curate in Kingston upon Hull, Hull. Then he emigrated to South Africa to be ''Priest-Vicar'' of the St Michael and St George Cathedral, Grahamstown, Grahamstown Cathedral. His next post was as Priest in charge of Pessene in Maputaland-Pondoland bushland and thickets, Maputoland followed by Dean (education), Principal of ''St Christopher's College Hlamankulu'', where he was later appointed to the episcopate. Peacey next served as Rector (ecclesiastical), Rector of KrugersdorpCrockford's Clerical Directory 1940-41 Oxford, Oxford University Press, OUP, 1941 and then Constantia, Cape Town, Constantia before he retired in 1954. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Diocese Of Lebombo
The Diocese of Lebombo (pt. ''Diocese Anglicana dos Libombos'') is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola. It is one of the three Anglican dioceses of Mozambique. This diocese is the most southerly of the three, the others being the Diocese of Niassa and the Diocese of Nampula. History The diocese was a result of the British missionary activity in Portuguese Mozambique, in the 19th century. The first bishop nominated of the Anglican Diocese of Lebombo was William Edmund Smyth, in 1893, who would be in functions until 1912. Only after the beginning of the war of independence between Portugal and the FRELIMO, the diocese would have his first Portuguese language bishop, Daniel Pina Cabral, a white European born prelate. Pina Cabral developed friendly relationships with the Roman Catholic bishops of Mozambique and established contact with members of the FRELIMO. He would be in office from 1969 to 1976, shortly after the independence. He was succeeded by the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |