John Paul Burrough

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(5 May 1916 – 27 January 2003) was Bishop of Mashonaland from 1968 to 1981.

Background

He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 May 1916 and educated at St Edward's School, Oxford and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. "Who was Who" 1897–2007 London,

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/ref> He was a skilled rower and was in the Oxford crews that beat Cambridge in the Boat Races of

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and

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. During the Second World War, he was commissioned in 1940 into the Royal Signals. In 1942 he became a prisoner of war in

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. In 1946 he was appointed a member of the military division of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his leadership in the PoW camps. Ordained in 1951, his first post was a curacy in Aldershot. After this he was a Missionary Priest in Korea and then (his final post before elevation to the episcopate)

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to Overseas Peoples in Birmingham. During this time he brought together a successful Trinidadian steel band and enabled them to find engagements, including a regular annual performance at the summer ball of his Alma Mater, St Edmund Hall Oxford. He was Bishop of

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in the Province of Central Africa from 1968 to 1981. On his return to England, he was Rector of

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and an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Peterborough, 1981–1985. A Sub-Prelate of the

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, he died on 27 January 2003.Telegraph Obituary
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References

1916 births 2003 deaths People educated at St Edward's School, Oxford Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford Royal Corps of Signals officers World War II prisoners of war held by Japan English Anglican missionaries 20th-century Anglican bishops in Africa Anglican bishops of Harare and Mashonaland Members of the Order of the British Empire Anglican missionaries in South Korea British Army personnel of World War II British World War II prisoners of war Oxford University Boat Club rowers {{Africa-Anglican-bishop-stub