Arthur Acheson Williams (1848–?) was the second
Bishop of Tinnevelly
The Bishop of Tinnevelly was the Ordinary of the Anglican Church in Tinnevelly, Tamil Nadu, India, from its inception in 1896 until the foundation of the ''Church in India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon'' in 1927; and after that head of one of ...
in the last decades of the 19th century and the first two of the 20th.
He was educated at
Trinity College, Dublin
, name_Latin = Collegium Sanctae et Individuae Trinitatis Reginae Elizabethae juxta Dublin
, motto = ''Perpetuis futuris temporibus duraturam'' (Latin)
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, motto_English = It will last i ...
and
ordained in 1870. He was then held
curacies at
Bromley and St John the Evangelist,
Penge. Emigrating to
India he became
Chaplain
A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a Minister (Christianity), minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a laity, lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secularity, secular institution (such as a hosp ...
of
St George’s Cathedral, Madras and then the
incumbent at
Vellore. His last post before appointment to the
episcopate was as
Archdeacon
An archdeacon is a senior clergy position in the Church of the East, Chaldean Catholic Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, St Thomas Christians, Eastern Orthodox churches and some other Christian denominations, above that o ...
of
Madras
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...
.
["A History of the Church of England in India Since the Early Days of the East India Company" Chatterton, E:London: SPCK, 1924]
References
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1848 births
Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Anglican archdeacons in India
20th-century Anglican bishops in India
Anglican bishops of Tinnevelly
1914 deaths