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

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bishop in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Educated at

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and ordained in 1934, he began his career with a curacy at Taney. After this he was Head of the Southern Church Mission, Ballymacarrett then

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of St George’s, Belfast. In 1958 he was elevated to the episcopate as

Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas The Diocese of Gambia and Guinea was founded in 1935 and had been renamed the Diocese of Gambia and The Rio Pongas by 1940. Today it is simply styled the Diocese of Gambia, is one of 17 dioceses in the Church of the Province of West Africa, and com ...

. On his return from Africa he became an Assistant Bishop of Guildford and held incumbencies at Ewshot (until 1971) and at Botleys with Lyne and

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(from 1971) until his retirement (as Vicar and as Assistant Bishop) on 26 November 1983.

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{{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