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Leslie Edward Stradling (11 February 19088 January 1998) was an
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bishop in three separate African dioceses during the mid-20th century. Born on 11 February 1908 and educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield and The Queen's College, Oxford; he was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1933 (11 June) and ordained a priest the next Trinity Sunday (27 May 1934) — both times by
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, Bishop of Southwark, at Southwark Cathedral. After a curacy at St Paul's, Lorrimore Square he was Vicar of ''St Luke's,
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'' and then of ''St Anne's, Wandsworth'' before being appointed the Church's youngest bishop in 1945. He was consecrated a bishop on St James's Day 1945 (25 July), by Geoffrey Fisher,
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, at Westminster Abbey. Translated from Masasi to be the first Bishop of South-West Tanganyika in 1952, his final post was as Bishop of Johannesburg. He died in 1998 in Cape Town.


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1908 births People educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford Anglican bishops of Masasi Anglican bishops of South-West Tanganyika Anglican bishops of Johannesburg 1998 deaths 20th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops {{Tanzania-bio-stub