Cecil Patterson (bishop)

Cecil John Patterson CBE CMG[1] CFR (9 January 1908 – 11 April 1992) was an Anglican bishop in the mid part of the 20th century.

He was born in London, educated at St Paul's[2] and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He trained for ordination at Bishops' College, Cheshunt[3] and was ordained deacon in 1931 and priest in 1932.[4] He was a Curate at Holy Innocents, Kingsbury[5] (1931–34) and then a Missionary in south Nigeria before his appointment to the episcopate as Assistant Bishop (1942) then Bishop on the Niger (1945). He was ordained and consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral, on Candlemas (2 February) 1942.[6] In 1961 he became Archbishop of the Church of the Province of West Africa.[7]

He retired in 1969 and his grave is in Richmond Cemetery.[8] He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).