George Appleton

For the American publisher, see George Swett Appleton.

George Appleton CMG, MBE^[1] (20 February 1902 – 28 August 1993) was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the twentieth century.^[2]^[3]

He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge ^[4] and ordained in 1926. After a curacy at Stepney Parish Church ^[5] he spent 20 years in Burma as a SPG missionary (ending this part of his ministry as Archdeacon of Rangoon)^[6] before returning to England. He was firstly vicar of Headstone^[7] then rector of St Botolph's Aldgate.^[8] In 1962 he became Archdeacon of London and a canon of St Paul's Cathedral and a year later Archbishop of Perth.^[9] In 1969 he was translated to Jerusalem.^[10] A prominent writer,^[11] he was awarded the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal by the Council of Christians and Jews in 1975.^[12]

References [edit]

^ NPG details
^ Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem
^ Perth Anglican
^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
^ Project Canterbury- Anglicanism in Burma
^ Church web-site
^ Mundas
^ The Times, 14 March 1963; pg. 11; Issue 55649; col G Post For Canon Of St. Paul's
^ New Archbishop In Jerusalem The Times 14 November 1968; pg. 12; Issue 57408; col F
^ Amongst others he wrote “John’s Witness to Jesus”, 1955; “ On the Eightfold Path”, 1961; “Journey for a Soul”, 1974; “ Glimpses of Faith”, 1982; and “The Heart of the Bible” 1989 > British Library website accessed 17:18 GMT 17 July 2009
^ Who was Who (ibid)

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Oswin Harvard Gibbs-Smith	Archdeacon of London 1962 – 1963	Succeeded by Martin Gloster Sullivan
Preceded by Robert William Haines Moline	Archbishop of Perth 1963 – 1969	Succeeded by Geoffrey Tremayne Sambell
Preceded by Angus Campbell MacInnes	Archbishop of Jerusalem 1969 – 1974	Succeeded by Robert Stopford

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