The Anglican Diocese of Sierra Leone was founded in 1852.

Bishops of Sierra Leone

* 1852–1854 Owen Vidal (1st bishop, died at sea, 1854) * 1855–1857 John Weeks (died in office of "African Sickness") * 1857–1860 John Bowen (died in office of Yellow Fever) * 1860–1869

Edward Beckles Edward Hyndman Beckles (1816 – 5 December 1902) was the Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1860 until 1869. Beckles was born in Barbados in 1816, educated at Codrington College Barbados, ordained deacon in 1843 and priest in 1844. He started as ...

* 1870-1882

Henry Cheetham Henry Cheetham (27 April 1827 – 22 December 1899) was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Sierra Leone from 1870 until 1882. Henry Cheetham was born in Nottingham and educated in Nottingham and at Christ's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1856, he was ...

* 1883–1897 Graham Ingham * 1897–1901

John Taylor Smith John Taylor-Smith (20 April 1860 – 28 March 1938) was an Anglican bishop and military chaplain. He was the Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone by the end of the 19th century and the Chaplain-General to the Forces from the year 1901 to 1925. E ...

* 1902–1909

Edmund Elwin Edmund Henry Elwin, DD (18 September 1871 – 10 November 1909) was an English Anglican missionary and Anglican Bishop of Sierra Leone. Biography Elwin was educated at Dover College and Merton College, Oxford, England, where he gained a thi ...

* 1910–1921 John Walmsley * 1923–1936

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(afterwards Bishop of North Africa, 1936) * 1936–1961 James L.C. Horstead (also Archbishop of West Africa, 1955–1961) ** 11 June 1948after 1957: Percy Jones, assistant bishop * 1961–1981 Moses N.C.O. Scott (also Archbishop of West Africa, 1969–1981)

Curates of Freetown

* 1855-1858 Revd Francis Pocock was Chaplain to John Weeks. He returned to

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where he founded

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in 1868. Amongst the school's earliest pupils were young men from Freetown.

References

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