Leslie Edward Stradling (11 February 19088 January 1998) was an Anglican

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in three separate

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s during the mid-20th century. Born on 11 February 1908 and educated at

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and

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; he was made a deacon on

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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

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. After a

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at St Paul's,

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he was

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of ''St Luke's, Camberwell'' and then of ''St Anne's,

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'' before being appointed the

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youngest bishop in 1945. He was consecrated a bishop on St James's Day 1945 (25 July), by

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, Archbishop of Canterbury, at

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from

Masasi Masasi is one of the six districts of the Mtwara Region of Tanzania. It is bordered to the north by the Lindi Region, to the east by the Newala District, to the south by the Ruvuma River and Mozambique and to the west by Nanyumbu District N ...

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