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John Willis

November 8, 1872 (age 82)

He and William George Peel, the Bishop of Mombasa, were accused of heresy during the Kikuyu controversy. Born on 8 November 1872, he was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1895 and began his career with a curacy in Great Yarmouth. Then he began a long period of service as a Content Management System missionary in Africa eventually becoming Archdeacon of Kavirondo before his elevation to the Episcopate in 1912. In 1934 he returned to England to be Assistant Bishop of Leicester. He died on 12 November 1954.

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The Rt Rev John Jamieson Willis, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Doctor of Divinity was an Anglican bishop, Bishop of Uganda from 1912 to 1934 and subsequently Assistant Bishop of Leicester.

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Pembroke College.

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He and William George Peel, the Bishop of Mombasa, were accused of heresy during the Kikuyu controversy. Born on 8 November 1872, he was educated at Haileybury and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1895 and began his career with a curacy in Great Yarmouth.

Then he began a long period of service as a Content Management System missionary in Africa eventually becoming Archdeacon of Kavirondo before his elevation to the Episcopate in 1912.

In 1934 he returned to England to be Assistant Bishop of Leicester. He died on 12 November 1954.

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Born

November 8, 1872
Died

November 12, 1954 (aged 82)
Nationality
Uganda

Education

"Pembroke College"

Awards

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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