Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman

Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman

The Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman is the Bishop of the "Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman" in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, which encompasses the area around Kimberley and Kuruman and is located in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. The current bishop is Ossie Swartz. There have so far been 11 bishops of the See, though one of these actually served for two different periods of time:

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1912 to 1928||Wilfred Gore-Browne||(1859-1928)
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1928 to 1943||Theodore Sumner Gibson||(1885-1953)
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1943 to 1951||John Hunter|| (1897-1965)
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1951 to 1960||John Boys||(1900-1972)
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1961 to 1965||Philip William Wheeldon||(1913-1992)
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1965 to 1967||Clarence Edward Crowther|| (b 1929)
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1968 to 1976||Philip William Wheeldon (2nd spell)||(Ibid)
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1976 to 1983||Graham Charles Chadwick||(1923-2007)
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1983 to 1991||George Alfred Swartz||(b 1928)
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1991 to 1996||Winston Njongonkulu Ndungane||(b 1941)
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1996 to 2006||Itumeleng Baldwin Moseki||(b 1944)
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2007 to present||Ossie Swartz||(b 1953-)
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