Reginald Courtenay (bishop of Jamaica) explained

Reginald Courtenay
Office1:Bishop of Jamaica
Term1:1872 - 1879
Office2:Archdeacon of Middlesex
Term2:1853-1856
Education:Hertford College, Oxford
Father:Thomas Courtenay

Reginald Courtenay DD (1813–1906)[1] was the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica from 1856 until 1879.[2]

He was educated at Tonbridge School and Hertford College, Oxford[3] and ordained in 1841. He was Rector of Thornton Watlass from 1842 to 1853 when he became Archdeacon of Middlesex (Jamaica), a post he held until his 1856 consecration to the episcopate as coadjutor bishop (called Bishop of Kingston) of Jamaica.[4] He automatically succeeded as diocesan Bishop of Jamaica upon Aubrey Spencer's death, 24 February 1872.

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Notes and References

  1. [The Times]
  2. http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/dissertations/01872495/full.pdf History of Theological education in Jamaica
  3. [Who's Who (UK)|“Who was Who”]
  4. http://www.anglicandiocesejamaica.com/content/aboutus/history.html The Diocese of Jamaica & The Cayman Islands