George Swartz
George Alfred Swartz (8 September 1928 - 1 January 2006) was a South African Anglican bishop. He was the ninth Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman.[1]
Education
[edit]Swartz was educated at the University of the Witwatersrand and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[2]
Priesthood and elevation to Episcopate
[edit]Ordained in 1955, he began his career with a curacy in Cape Town and held a number of pastoral posts in the area before becoming a suffragan bishop of the diocese in 1972.
Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman
[edit]Eleven years later he was translated to Kimberley and Kuruman, in 1983, where he remained until retirement, in 1991.
Link with the Diocese of Atlanta
[edit]Bishop Swartz originated a link between Kimberley and Kuruman and the Diocese of Atlanta in the United States of America, and on 5 June 1984 he was awarded Freedom of the City of Compton.[3]
Death
[edit]He died in retirement in Cape Town on New Year's Eve 2006.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
- ^ Who’s Who 1992 London, A & C Black, 1992 ISBN 0-7136-3514-2
- ^ Diamond Fields Advertiser 5 June 2009, p 12
- ^ Announcement of his death[permanent dead link]
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