Cecil John Patterson (9 January 190811 April 1992) was an Anglican bishop in the mid part of the 20th century.
He was born in London, educated at St Paul's“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He trained for ordination at Bishops' College, CheshuntCrockford's Clerical Directory, 1973-74, 85th Edition, p 741. and was ordained deacon in 1931 and priest in 1932.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941 He was a Curate at Holy Innocents, KingsburyPicture of church (1931–34) and then a Missionary in south Nigeria before his appointment to the episcopate as Assistant Bishop (1942) then Bishop on the Niger (1945). He was ordained and consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral, on Candlemas (2 February) 1942. In 1961 he became Archbishop of the Church of the Province of West Africa.National Archives
He retired in 1969 and his grave is in Richmond Cemetery.Richmond Cemetery Services He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).
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