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Bruce Evans (bishop)

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Church
  
Anglican

Successor
  
Eric Pike

Diocese
  
Port Elizabeth

Ordination
  
1957

In office
  
1975 – 1993

Name
  
Bruce Evans

Predecessor
  
Philip Russell


Bruce Read Evans (1929 – 1993) was an Anglican bishop and author in the 20th century.

He was educated at King Edward School, Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand and ordained in 1957. He held curacies at Holy Trinity, Redhill, Surrey and St Paul’s, Portman Square. He was Curate-in charge at St Luke’s, Diep River, Cape. He held incumbencies at Christ Church, Kenilworth, Cape Town and St John’s, Wynberg, Cape Town before ascending to the Episcopate as the second Bishop of Port Elizabeth. He died in post.

Publsihed works

Among other books, he wrote I Will Heal their Land, 1974; The Earth is the Lord’s, 1975; Facing the New Challenges, 1978; and The Church and the Alternative Society, 1979

References

Bruce Evans (bishop) Wikipedia