Type: | Bishop |
Bruce Evans | |
Bishop of Port Elizabeth | |
Church: | Anglican |
Diocese: | Port Elizabeth |
Term: | 1975 - 1993 |
Successor: | Eric Pike |
Ordination: | 1957 |
Birth Date: | 10 November 1929 |
Death Place: | Port Elizabeth |
Bruce Read Evans (1929 – 1993) was an Anglican bishop[1] and author in the 20th century.
He was educated at King Edward School, Johannesburg and the University of the Witwatersrand[2] and ordained in 1957.[3] He held curacies at Holy Trinity, Redhill, Surrey[4] 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 his ordination to the episcopate[5] as the second Bishop of Port Elizabeth. He died in post.
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[6]
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