Duncan Buchanan

George Duncan Buchanan (c. 1935 – 2012) was a South African Anglican bishop.

The Right Reverend

Duncan Buchanan
Bishop of Johannesburg
ChurchAnglican
ProvinceSouthern Africa
DioceseJohannesburg
Personal details
Born
George Duncan Buchanan

Duncan Buchanan grew up in Johannesburg, and became a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Natal. He was rector of the parish of Warner Beach in the early 1960s, and at the beginning of 1966 moved to Grahamstown to teach at St Paul's Theological College.

Buchanan succeeded John Suggit as warden of St Paul’s Theological College, Grahamstown, where he taught pastoral counseling.[1]

He was dean of Johannesburg and later bishop of Johannesburg.

During his episcopal ministry he chaired and made a significant contribution[2] to the 1998 Lambeth Conference's committee on human sexuality. [3][4][5]

Like most Anglican bishops in South Africa during the apartheid years he was drawn into anti-apartheid activism.[6]

Publications
  • The Counselling of Jesus. Hodder and Stoughton. 1985. ISBN 978-0-340-36867-1.[1]
  • Closer to God Reading the Bible in the Power of the Holy Spirit. Struik Publishers. 2002. ISBN 978-1-86823-490-5.

References
  1. Hurding, Roger (1985). "The Counseling of Jesus". Third Way. 8 (7): 30.
  2. The Most Reverend Thabo Makgoba, Archbishop of Cape Town (2012). "Statement on the Death of Bishop Duncan Buchanan". Rhodes University, Grahamstown. Archived from the original on 9 June 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  3. Bates, Stephen (2004). A Church at War: Anglicans and Homosexuality. I.B.Tauris. pp. 134–. ISBN 978-1-85043-480-1.
  4. Hassett, Miranda K. (2009). Anglican Communion in Crisis: How Episcopal Dissidents and Their African Allies Are Reshaping Anglicanism. Princeton University Press. pp. 108–. ISBN 978-1-4008-2771-8.
  5. Lewis, Harold T. (2007). A Church for the Future: South Africa as the Crucible for Anglicanism in a New Century. Church Publishing, Inc. pp. 96–. ISBN 978-0-89869-811-4.
  6. Tutu, Desmond (2006). The Rainbow People of God. Double Storey. pp. 208–. ISBN 978-1-77013-098-2.
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