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Name
  
Oliver Green-Wilkinson

Died
  
1970

Education
  
Eton College


Francis Oliver Green-Wilkinson (7 May 1913 – 26 August 1970) was an eminent Anglican archbishop in the third quarter of the 20th century.

He was born into a clerical family and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford. After distinguished service with the King's Royal Rifle Corps, he was ordained deacon in 1946 and priest a year later. His first post was as a Curate at St Mary, Southampton, after which he was on the staff of St Alban’s Cathedral, Pretoria until his elevation to the episcopate as the 4th Bishop of Northern Rhodesia in 1951. After eleven years he was additionally elected Archbishop of Central Africa. A fierce opponent of apartheid and a naturalized Zambian, he was killed in a car crash.

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