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Rowan Quentin Smith (8 August 1943 – 23 May 2018) was a

Dean of St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town.[1]

Early life and education

Rowan Smith was born on 8 August 1943, the son of Frank and Dorothea Smith.

St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster
(1966-1967).

Career

He was

Bishop Suffragan of Cape Town, and priest at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town on 9 June 1968 by the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Reverend Robert Selby Taylor.[4]

He served successively as

assistant priest (licensed 9 June 1968; served until 1971) of St. Nicholas’, Matroosfontein; assistant curate of All Saints’, Plumstead (licensed 10 January 1971; served until 1972); and priest-in-charge of Grassy Park (licensed 16 April 1972; served until May 1977), all in the Diocese of Cape Town
.

Thereafter, he entered the novitiate of the Community of the Resurrection, Mirfield, in June 1977. He became a professed member of the community in 1980 and was then appointed as chaplain to St. Martin’s School, in the city and diocese of Johannesburg.

Released from his vows, he left the Community of the Resurrection in 1987, becoming

Desmond Mpilo Tutu, all in the Diocese of Cape Town.[6]

Between 1991-1996 he served as provincial executive officer of the

canon pastor (1996) and fourteenth dean and rector of the Cathedral Church of St. George the Martyr (installed by the archbishop, the Most Reverend Winston Hugh Njongonkulu Ndungane
, 13 October 1996), all in the Diocese of Cape Town.

He came out as gay while serving as the dean of the cathedral, and was supported in this by his congregation.[7]

Retirement

He retired in 2010,[8] being given the title of Canon.

Personal life

Rowan Smith died at his home in

Goodwood, Cape Town on 23 May 2018.[9]
He was unmarried.

Notes

  1. ^ Cathedral Web Site
  2. ^ Information supplied by the Smith family.
  3. Facebook
  4. ISBN 0-19-200008-X
  5. ^ St Paul Rondebosch
  6. ^ Diocese of Cape Town Year Book No. 79 (1989), p. 38; No. 80 (1990), pp. 1, 38. Church of the Province of Southern Africa Clerical Directory,1991/1992, p. 299.
  7. ^ "Churchgoers embrace gay priest". News24. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  8. ^ "Sermon Upon the Retirement of Dean Rowan Smith". Diocese of False Bay. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  9. ^ "Former St George's Cathedral dean Rowan Smith dies". IOL. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
Anglican Church of Southern Africa titles
Preceded by
Dean of Cape Town

1996–2010 		Succeeded by
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