Leslie Brown (bishop)
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Leslie Wilfrid Brown
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
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
- ISBN 0-19-200008-X
- ^ Independent obituary[dead link]
- ^ First Archbishop of Uganda Dr. L. W. Brown Elected The Times Tuesday, 8 November 1960; pg. 10; Issue 54923; col E
- ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
- ^ The Times, Thursday, 7 April 1966; pg. 14; Issue 56600; col B New Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
- ISBN 0-7136-3514-2
- ^ Church web-site
- ISBN 0-86003-614-6
- ^ Church Times obituary 14 January 2000
- ^ National Archives
- ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 13 January 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 25 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 20 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ Church Times obituary 14 January 2000
- ^ Church Times obituary 14 January 2000
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