Stanley Chapman Pickard, OBE (4 July 1910 – 31 March 1988) was the eighth

Bishop of Lebombo The Diocese of Lebombo (pt. ''Diocese Anglicana dos Libombos'') is a diocese in the Anglican Church of Mozambique and Angola. It is one of the three Anglican dioceses of Mozambique. This diocese is the most southerly of the three, the others being ...

from 1958 until 1969. He was ordained in 1938 and his first post was as a

curate 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 St Catherine's,

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. He became a

UMCA The Universities' Mission to Central Africa (c.1857 - 1965) was a missionary society established by members of the Anglican Church within the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and Dublin. It was firmly in the Anglo-Catholic tradition of t ...

missionary, rising in time to be

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Portuguese East Africa Portuguese Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique) or Portuguese East Africa (''África Oriental Portuguesa'') were the common terms by which Mozambique was designated during the period in which it was a Portuguese colony. Portuguese Mozambique originally ...

. 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 ...

, serving for a decade. After this he was

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of St John's,

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Church details
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1910 births English Anglican missionaries Anglican archdeacons in Africa 20th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops Anglican bishops of Lebombo Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 1988 deaths Anglican missionaries in Mozambique {{Anglican-bishop-stub