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George Swartz

August 28, 2023

George Alfred Swartz (8 September 1928 - 1 January 2006) was a South African Anglican bishop. He was the ninth Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman.[1]

Education Edit

Swartz was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2]

Priesthood and elevation to Episcopate Edit

Ordained in 1955, he began his career with a curacy in Cape Town and held a number of pastoral posts in the area before becoming a suffragan bishop of the diocese in 1972.

Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman Edit

Eleven years later he was translated to Kimberley and Kuruman, in 1983, where he remained until retirement, in 1991.

Link with the Diocese of Atlanta Edit

Bishop Swartz originated a link between Kimberley and Kuruman and the Diocese of Atlanta in the United States of America, and on 5 June 1984 he was awarded Freedom of the City of Compton.[3]

Death Edit

He died in retirement in Cape Town on New Year's Eve 2006.[4]

Notes Edit

  1. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  2. ^ Who’s Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1992 ISBN 0-7136-3514-2
  3. ^ Diamond Fields Advertiser 5 June 2009, p 12
  4. ^ Announcement of his death[permanent dead link]


 

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