The Bishop of South Tokyo was a historic title of a bishop in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, or Anglican Church in Japan.
Edward Bickersteth (1850–1897) was the first Bishop of South Tokyo, from 1886 until his premature death in 1897.[1] He was born at Banningham, Norfolk, into a noted ecclesiastical family; his father was Bishop of Exeter from 1885 to 1900.[2]
The title of Bishop of South Tokyo was suspended in 1947 after the reorganization of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai into eleven dioceses.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ The Times (London), Wednesday, January 26, 1898, Issue 35423, p. 7, col. E (Church Missions in Japan).
- ^ Biography of father. Archived 2008-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
External links
[edit]- Difficulties encountered by Mission to Japan in The Cross and the Rising Sun: The British Protestant missionary movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, 1865–1945. A. Hamish Ion, 1990.
- National Archives – Awdry
- National Archives – Bickersteth