Robert Selby Taylor

In this name, the family name is Selby Taylor, not Taylor.

Robert Selby Taylor CBE OGS (1 March 1909–23 April 1995) was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.

Selby Taylor was educated at Harrow and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1933 , his first post was a curacy at St Olave’s, York. He then emigrated to Africa to become a Missionary Priest in the Diocese of Northern Rhodesia, rising to become Principal of its Diocesan Theological College and then in 1951 Bishop of the Diocese. Translated to Pretoria a decade later and Grahamstown in 1959 he was appointed Archbishop of Cape Town in 1964. Ten years later he announced his retirement but in 1979 he was petitioned to return to a part of his first diocese and serve as Bishop of Central Zambia. In 1983 he was honoured by The Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury to mark his fifty years of service to the Episcopate. A Sub Prelate of the Order of Jerusalem, he died on 23 April 1995. A Chair at the University of Cape Town is named in his honour and in 2009 events were held to honour his centenary. Many of his papers are stored at the University of the Witwatersrand .

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Preceded by Alston James Weller May	Bishop of Northern Rhodesia 1941 – 1951	Succeeded by Francis Oliver Green-Wilkinson
Preceded by Wilfrid Parker	Bishop of Pretoria 1951 – 1959	Succeeded by Edward George Knapp-Fisher
Preceded by Archibald Howard Cullen	Bishop of Grahamstown 1959 – 1964	Succeeded by Gordon Leslie Tindall
Preceded by Joost de Blank	Archbishop of Cape Town 1964 – 1974	Succeeded by Bill Bendyshe Burnett
Preceded by Jack Cunningham (bishop)	Bishop of Central Zambia 1979– 1984	Succeeded by William Clement Hlanya Shaba