Type: | Bishop |
Honorific Prefix: | The Most Reverend |
George Henderson | |
Honorific Suffix: | M.B.E., |
Bishop of Argyll and The Isles Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church | |
Church: | Scottish Episcopal Church |
Diocese: | Argyll and The Isles |
Elected: | 1977 |
Term: | 1977–1992 |
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Predecessor: | Richard Wimbush |
Successor: | Douglas Cameron |
Other Post: | Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (1990–1992) |
Ordination: | 1945 |
Ordained By: | John How |
Consecration: | 30 November 1977 |
Consecrated By: | Alastair Haggart |
Birth Date: | 5 December 1922 |
Birth Place: | Oban, Argyll and Bute, Scotland |
Parents: | George Buchanan Henderson & Anna Kennedy Butters |
Spouse: | Isobel Bowman |
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Alma Mater: | University of Edinburgh |
George Kennedy Buchanan Henderson (5 December 1922 – 26 September 1997)[1] [2] was a Scottish Anglican bishop in the 20th century. He was Bishop of Argyll and The Isles and elected Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Henderson was educated at the University of Edinburgh and ordained in 1945.[3] He began his ordained ministry with a curacy at Christ Church, Glasgow, after which he was the priest in charge of St Bride's Nether Lochaber and then the rector of St Andrew's Fort William.[4] In 1973, he became Dean of the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles and was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1974.[5] In 1977 he became Bishop of Argyll and The Isles (diocesan bishop of the same diocese). He was elected Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church in 1990 and retired in 1992.