John Manwaring Steward (1874–1937) was the fifth Anglican

Bishop of Melanesia The Archbishop of Melanesia is the spiritual head of the Church of the Province of Melanesia, which is a province of the Anglican Communion in the South Pacific region, covering the nations of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. From 1861 until the inaugu ...

, serving from 1919 to 1928. From 1924 he was assisted by

Merivale Molyneux Frederick Merivale Molyneux (called Merivale;Blain, Michael. ''Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific – ordained before 1932'' (2019) pp. 1064–8 (Accessed aProject Canterbury 27 June 2019) 10 May 188520 November ...

as assistant bishop. He was the son of Charles Edward Steward, also an Anglican priest. J.M. Steward was elected Bishop of Melanesia after 17 years of missionary work as a priest in the Melanesian Mission, which he joined in 1902. In 1920 Steward moved the headquarters of the Melanesian Mission from

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in the

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. In 1925 he assisted

Ini Kopuria Ini Kopuria (died June 1945) was a police officer from Maravovo, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands who founded the Melanesian Brotherhood in 1925. He and the Bishop of Melanesia, the Right Reverend John Manwaring Steward, realised Ini's dream by form ...

in the formation of the

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, a group of evangelists with a common rule of life. Steward is listed in the Calendar of saints (Church of the Province of Melanesia).

References

John Steward's Memories: Papers Written by Bishop Steward of Melanesia
edited by M. R. Newbolt (1939)

External links

Documents by and about Steward
from

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The Primary Charge Delivered by The Right Reverend John Manwaring Steward, Bishop of the Diocese of Melanesia, in his Cathedral Church of S. Barnabas', Norfolk Island, on Monday, 6 October, 1919
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