Randolph Oswald George

The Rt Rev Randolph Oswald George has been the Bishop of Guyana [ [http://www.anglicancommunion.org/tour/diocese.cfm?Idind=743 Anglican Communion] ] since 1980 [ [http://www.stgeorges.org.gy/St%20Georges%20Cathedral%20Book.pdf Diocesan history] ] . Born in 1924 and educated at Codrington College, Barbados , after a curacy at "St Peter Barbados" he spent a decade in England [Successively he was Curate at Leigh, Ardwick and Lavender Hill >Crockford's clerical directory1976 Lambeth, Church House ISBN 0180153674] before returning to become Chaplain to the Bishop of Trinidad. From there he became Rector of Couva then "All Saints, Port of Spain" before being elected to to the Deanery of the Anglican Diocese of Guyana in 1971. Promoted to be the Suffragan Bishop [ [http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/news301/nc3041316.htm Details of Suffragan Bishopic] ] of "Stabroek" [The name by which Guyana was known until 1822 Encyclopædia Britannica 1955 edn Vol 10 p 955] in 1976, four years later he became Bishop -a position he has held ever since [ [http://www.dioceseofguyana.org/history.htm Description of Diocese] ] .

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