Philip Russell (bishop)
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| Successor | Desmond Tutu |
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| Ordination | 1981 |
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| Born | 21 October 1919 Cowies Hill, South Africa |
| Died | 25 July 2013 (aged 93) Adelaide, Australia |
| Previous post(s) | Bishop of Natal |
Philip Welsford Richmond Russell,
Personal life
Russell was born 21 October 1919 in Cowies Hill, South Africa and died 25 July 2013 in Adelaide, Australia.[1]
He was educated in
He met fellow-South African Eirene Hogarth in Rome in 1944, whom he married in 1945 at the Garrison Church, Foggia, Italy. [4] Together they had four children, Susan, June, Pauline and Christopher.[5] After the death of his wife in 2001,[4] Russell moved to Adelaide, Australia, where three of his four children had settled.
Church career
After World War II he served in various parishes in the
From 1970 to 1974 he was the bishop of the new
In 1980 he was named
Apartheid
As a parish priest in country towns, he started expressing his doubts about Apartheid in sermons. In 1962 he saw black people and white people sitting together and talking for the first time, while at a church council.
Publications
- Tools for the Job. Lawrence Bekisisa Zulu
References
- ^ Anon (2013). "Tributes to South Africa's former Primate". Anglican Communion News Service. Anglican Communion Office. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ a b Anon (2003). "Diakonia's tribute to Archbishop Russell" (PDF). Anglican News. 13 (1&2): 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 September 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2008.
- ^ "No. 36209". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 October 1943. p. 4542.
- ^ a b c d Michael Nuttall (2013). "Philip Welsford Richmond Russell (1919 – 2013)" (PDF). Natalia. The Natal Society Foundation. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-946653-84-3. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ Anne R. Kotzé (1992). Bishopscourt and its residents. Creda Press. p. 55. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
- ^ "The beginning of the end of Apartheid" (PDF). Cathedral Magazine. June 2007. Retrieved 4 April 2008. [dead link]
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