Robert Gray (bishop of Cape Town)
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Before leaving England for Cape Town
Robert Gray (3 October 1809 – 1 September 1872) was the first
Bishop of Cape Town
.
Biography
Gray was born in
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
.
In 1847, he was consecrated
Bishop of Cape Town in Westminster Abbey
, along with three bishops for Australia, and arrived in his diocese, the boundaries of which were undefined, in February the following year.
Soon after arriving he set out on a journey to explore his diocese, accompanied by James Green, who was to be rector of Pietermaritzburg in the Colony of Natal. On reaching Grahamstown he ordained William Long, with whom he was to come into conflict later.
In 1849, he visited
Grahamstown
.
Robert Gray was married on 6 September 1836 to
Gaika people.[4]
Robert Gray's son, Rev. Charles Norris Gray, M.A., edited the book 'Life of Robert Gray' (Rivingtons, 1876).[5]
Notes and references
- ^ Gray 1849.
- ^ Gray 1851.
- ^ Draper 2003, pp. 306–325.
- ISBN 978-155861-407-9.
- ^ "Art. IV—Life of Bishop Gray". The Westminster Review, New Series. Vol. L. 1876. pp. 80–108.
- Draper, Jonathan A. (2003). "The Trial of Bishop John William Colenso". In Jonathan A. Draper (ed.). The Eye of the Storm: Bishop John William Colenso and the Crisis of Biblical Inspiration. A&C Black. ISBN 978-0-567-40158-8.
- ISBN 9780281022779.
- Page, Brian Tindall (1947). The harvest of Good Hope: an account of the expansion of the Church of the Province of South Africa. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
- . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Gray, Robert (1849). A Journal of the Bishop's Visitation Tour Through the Cape Colony in 1848: With an Account of His Visit to the Island of St. Helena in 1849 and a Map. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
- Gray, Robert (1851). A Journal of the Bishop's Visitation Tour Through the Cape Colony in 1850.
- Day, E. Hermitage (1930). Robert Gray: First Bishop of Cape Town. London: S.P.C.K.
- Stone, S.J. (1872), "In Memoriam. The Bishop of Cape Town (1872)", Mission Life, vol. III, Part II, pp. 647–653, retrieved 30 September 2014
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