St John Surridge Pike (27 December 190913 November 1992) was an Anglican

bishop A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is c ...

in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin and

ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform ...

in 1934, he began his career with a

curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

at Taney. After this he was Head of the Southern Church Mission,

Ballymacarrett Ballymacarrett or Ballymacarret () is the name of both a townland and electoral ward in Belfast. The townland is in County Down and the electoral ward is part of the Titanic district electoral area of Belfast City Council. The ward was create ...

then

Rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ...

of St George’s,

Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdom ...

. In 1958 he was elevated to the

episcopate A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance of dioceses. The role or office of bishop is ca ...

as Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas. On his return from Africa he became an

Assistant Bishop of Guildford The Bishop of Guildford is the Ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of Guildford in the Province of Canterbury. The title had first appeared as a suffragan See in the Diocese of Winchester in 1874. The Bishop suffragan of Guildford ass ...

and held incumbencies at

Ewshot Ewshot is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. It lies in the north east of the county, close to the Surrey border. The name Ewshot comes from Old English and means ''corner or angle of land where yew trees grow''. Ewshot consists ...

(until 1971) and at Botleys with Lyne and Long Cross (from 1971) until his retirement (as Vicar and as Assistant Bishop) on 26 November 1983.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pike, St John Surridge 1909 births Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Anglican bishops of Gambia and the Rio Pongas 20th-century Anglican bishops in Africa 1992 deaths Assistant bishops of Guildford Irish expatriate Protestant bishops