Cyril Swaby Explained

John Cyril Emerson Swaby (11 December 1905 – 21 April 1974) was an Anglican Bishop of Jamaica in the 20th century.

He was born on 11 December 1905 and educated at Munro College, Jamaica and Durham University[1] and ordained in 1929.[2] His first post was as a curate at Brown's Town after which he held incumbencies at St Cyprian's Highgate and then St Matthew's Kingston. From 1951 he was Archdeacon of South Middlesex and a decade later was promoted to be suffragan of Bishop of Kingston. After seven years he was promoted to be the diocesan bishop, the Bishop of Jamaica,[3] and served until his death on 21 April 1974.

References

  1. [Who's Who (UK)|“Who was Who”]
  2. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  3. Web site: Diocesan History . 2009-06-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090419220522/http://anglicandiocese.dthost.com/history.dti . 2009-04-19 . dead .