The Bishop of Grahamstown is the Ordinary of the

Diocese of Grahamstown The Diocese of Grahamstown is a diocese of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. It is centred on the historic city of Makhanda in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The diocese extends to East London, in the east and Port Alfred to t ...

in the

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. The Bishop's residence is Bishopsbourne,

Grahamstown Makhanda, also known as Grahamstown, is a town of about 140,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is situated about northeast of Port Elizabeth and southwest of East London. Makhanda is the largest town in the Makana ...

List of Bishops of Grahamstown

Diocesan bishops

# John Armstrong, D.D. 1853-1856 #

Henry Cotterill Henry Cotterill (1812 – 16 April 1886) was an Anglican bishop serving in South Africa in the second half of the 19th century. From 1872 until death he was a bishop of the Scottish Episcopal Church in Edinburgh. Early life Cotterill was ...

, M.A., D.D. 1856-1871 (Later

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) # Nathaniel James Merriman, D.D. 1871-1882 #

Allan Becher Webb Allan Becher Webb (also spelled "Alan"; 1839–1907) was the second Anglican Bishop of Bloemfontein, afterward Bishop of Grahamstown and, later, Dean of Salisbury. Early years Webb was born in 1839 in Calcutta, India, the son of Allan Webb, a ...

, D.D. 1883-1898 (Later

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, England) # Charles Edward Cornish, D.D. 1899-1915 # Francis Robinson Phelps, D.D. 1915-1931 (Later Archbishop of Cape Town) # Archibald Howard Cullen, M.A. 1931-1959 #

Robert Selby Taylor Robert Selby Taylor (1 March 1909 – 23 April 1995) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century. Selby Taylor was educated at Harrow and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1933, his first post was a curacy at St Olave's Church, Y ...

, M.A., D.D. 1959-1964 (Later archbishop of Cape Town) # Gordon Leslie Tindall, B.A. 1964-1969 # Bill Bendyshe Burnett, M.A. L.Th. 1969-1974 (Later archbishop of Cape Town) # Kenneth Cyril Oram, B.A., A.K.C. 1974-1987 (Later assistant bishop of

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) # David Patrick Hamilton Russell, M.A., Ph.D. 1987-2004 # Thabo Cecil Makgoba, B.Sc. B.A. (Hons) MEd Ph.D. 2004-2007 (Later Archbishop of Cape Town) # Ebenezer St Mark Ntlali, Dip.Th. B.A. (Hons) B.Th. 2007–present

Bishops suffragan

The following were bishops suffragan in the diocese: *

Eric Pike Eric Pike (11 November 1936 – 17 June 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Port Elizabeth from 1993 to 2001. He was educated at Graaff Reinet Teachers' Training College and was a teacher at Queen’s College Boys' ...

, P.T.C., Dip.Th. 1989-1993 (Later bishop of

Port Elizabeth Gqeberha (), formerly Port Elizabeth and colloquially often referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, So ...

) *

Anthony Mdletshe Anthony Thembinkosi Bonga Mdletshe was an Anglican bishop in South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that ...

, L.Th., M.Div. 1993-1997 (Later bishop of Zululand) *

Bethlehem Nopece Nceba Bethlehem Nopece (born 1950) is a South African Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of Port Elizabeth in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa from 2001 to 2018. He is a theological conservative, the leading name of the Anglican realignm ...

, Dip.Th. B.Th. M.Th. 1998-2002 (Later bishop of Port Elizabeth) * Thabo Cecil Makgoba, B.Sc. B.A. (Hons) MEd.(Psychology) Ph.D. 2002-2004 (afterwards bishop of Grahamstown)

References

{{Anglican-southern-africa Makhanda, Eastern Cape

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