Leslie Brown (bishop)

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Leslie Wilfrid Brown

Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi,[3][4] before returning to the UK and later serving as Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.[5]

Education and early career

Brown was educated at

Episcopal ministry

In 1952 Brown accepted the post of Bishop of Uganda, despite having doubts because of his support for indigenisation.[9] He was to serve as a bishop in total for 25 years,[10] first as Bishop of Uganda (diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Uganda) until 1960, bridging the period of Ugandan independence, then as Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, until his retirement effective 21 November 1965.[11]

Upon the division of Uganda into separate dioceses in 1960, Brown remained in post, becoming diocesan bishop of a smaller diocese: the

Bishop of Namirembe. On 7 November 1960, he was elected Archbishop[12] of the new province, which was initially named the Province of Uganda and Rwanda-Urundi, but soon renamed the Province of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi; he was installed archbishop at the province's inauguration service on 16 April 1961 at Namirembe Cathedral.[13]
The three national churches were later to become three separate provinces, but remained a single provincial unit throughout Brown's tenure.

On his return to England, Brown became first an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford, and then in 1966 the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. He retired in 1978, and lived in retirement in Halesworth, serving as an honorary assistant priest in the local parish church.

Academic interests

His lasting contribution is reckoned to be in the field of liturgy, first as a member of the liturgy committee of the Church of South India, which in 1950 produced the influential CSI Liturgy, then working on A Liturgy for Africa, produced in 1964, and also corresponding with the Church of England's Liturgical Commission.[14] He further assisted in the development of A United Liturgy for East Africa, published in 1966. A noted author, his history The Indian Christians of St Thomas, was described at the time of his death as "a classic textbook".[15][16]

References

  1. ^ Independent obituary[dead link]
  2. ^ First Archbishop of Uganda Dr. L. W. Brown Elected The Times Tuesday, 8 November 1960; pg. 10; Issue 54923; col E
  3. ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  4. ^ The Times, Thursday, 7 April 1966; pg. 14; Issue 56600; col B New Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
  5. ^ Church web-site
  6. ^ Church Times obituary 14 January 2000
  7. ^ National Archives
  8. ISSN 0009-658X
    . Retrieved 13 January 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
  9. . Retrieved 25 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  10. . Retrieved 20 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
  11. ^ Church Times obituary 14 January 2000
  12. ^ Church Times obituary 14 January 2000
  13. GMT
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Bishop of Uganda

1953–1960
Diocese split and renamed
Diocese split and renamed
Bishop of Namirembe

1960–1965
Succeeded by
New title
Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi

1961–1965
Succeeded by
Preceded by Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
1966–1978
Succeeded by