File:Canterbury cathedral. jpg Anglicanism portal The Rt Rev Robert Selby Taylor, CBE, OGS was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the Twentieth Century. He was born on 1 March 1909 and educated at Harrow and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1933, his first post was a curacy at St Olave’s, York.

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  • File:Canterbury cathedral. jpg Anglicanism portal The Rt Rev Robert Selby Taylor, CBE, OGS was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the Twentieth Century. He was born on 1 March 1909 and 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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  • File:Canterbury cathedral. jpg Anglicanism portal The Rt Rev Robert Selby Taylor, CBE, OGS was an eminent Anglican Bishop in the Twentieth Century. He was born on 1 March 1909 and educated at Harrow and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1933, his first post was a curacy at St Olave’s, York.
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  • Robert Selby Taylor
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