Predecessor new title Consecration 1950 Died December 16, 1987 | Name Leonard Beecher Ordination 1929 | |
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Born 21 May 1906 ( 1906-05-21 ) | ||
Leonard James Beecher (21 May 1906 – 16 December 1987) was an English-born Anglican Archbishop. He was the first Archbishop of the Province of East Africa, comprising Kenya and Tanzania, from 1960 to 1970.
He was educated at St Olave's Grammar School and Imperial College London and ordained an Anglican priest in 1929.
He was a missionary of the Church Mission Society in the Diocese of Mombasa from 1930, working in the Highlands. He rose in time to be Archdeacon, Canon and Assistant Bishop of the Diocese before elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Mombasa. He was Archbishop of the Province of East Africa, from 1960 to 1970. A prominent member of the Royal African Society, he retired in 1970 and died on 16 December 1987. He is buried in the cemetery at All Saints, Limuru.