British bishop
Alan Francis Bright Rogers (1907–2003)[ 1] was an Anglican bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning over half a century.[ 2]
Educated at Westminster City School , trained for the priesthood at King's College London and ordained in 1932, he began his career with a curacy at St Stephen's, Shepherd's Bush .[ 3] From 1934 he served the Anglican Church in Mauritius , firstly as a missionary priest then as Archdeacon of Mauritius . Returning to England he became Vicar of Twickenham followed by a spell as Rural Dean of Hampstead before appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of Mauritius in 1959.[ 4] Translated to become Bishop of Fulham (a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of London with delegated responsibility from the Bishop of London for northern and central Europe) in 1966,[ 5] his final appointment was a sideways move to become Bishop of Edmonton [ 6] (another suffragan bishop of that Diocese, but actually ministering there) four years later. That See was erected on 29 May 1970[ 7] in order to supervise a new district of the diocese created by the experimental area scheme that year.[ 8]
In retirement he continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop (in the Diocese of Peterborough and then the Kensington area of the London diocese ) for a further quarter of a century.
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Suffragans for Europe Suffragans of London