Robert Selby Taylor

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Robert Selby Taylor OGS CBE (1 March 1909 – 23 April 1995)[1] was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.

Selby Taylor was educated at Harrow and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1933,[2] his first post was a curacy at St Olave's Church, York. He then emigrated to Africa to become a Missionary Priest in the Diocese of Northern Rhodesia, rising to become principal of its diocesan theological college and then in 1951 bishop of the diocese.[3] Translated to Pretoria[4] a decade later and Grahamstown in 1959 he was appointed Archbishop of Cape Town in 1964. Ten years later he announced his retirement[5] but in 1979 he was petitioned to return to a part of his first diocese and serve as Bishop of Central Zambia.[6]

In 1983 he was honoured by The Queen (made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire) and in 1991, the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on him the Lambeth Doctorate of Divinity to mark his fifty years of service in the episcopate.[6] A Sub Prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, he died on 23 April 1995.[7] A Chair at the University of Cape Town is named in his honour[8] and in 2009 events were held to honour his centenary.[9] Many of his papers are stored at the University of the Witwatersrand.[10] He was a member of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd.

References

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  3. Anglican churches in Zambia
  4. New Bishop of Pretoria, The Times, Tuesday, Oct 30, 1951; pg. 4; Issue 52145; col E
  5. Archbishop of Cape Town to retire The Times Tuesday, Mar 12, 1974; pg. 16; Issue 59036; col C
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  7. Brainy history
  8. Ohio University Press
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  10. Wits Historical papers

External links

Portraits of Robert Selby Taylor at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Bishop of Northern Rhodesia
1941 – 1951
Succeeded by
Francis Oliver Green-Wilkinson
Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by Bishop of Pretoria
1951 – 1959
Succeeded by
Edward George Knapp-Fisher
Preceded by Bishop of Grahamstown
1959 – 1964
Succeeded by
Gordon Leslie Tindall
Preceded by Archbishop of Cape Town
1964 – 1974
Succeeded by
Bill Bendyshe Burnett
Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Bishop of Central Zambia
1979– 1984
Succeeded by
William Clement Hlanya Shaba