John Stopford (priest)

John Norman Stopford was an Anglican Archdeacon in Zimbabwe in the second half of the 20th century.[1]

Stopford was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and ordained in 1933. After a curacy in Crewe he was at the Wreningham Mission, Zimbabwe[2] from 1936 to 1939; Daramombe from 1939 to 1944; and Bulawayo from 1947 to 1954. He was Archdeacon of Matabeleland, and Chaplain to the Bishop of Matabeleland from 1954[3] to 1962.[4]

Notes
  1. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967-68 : London, OUP, 1968
  2. Wreningham.org
  3. Ecclesiastical News. The Times (London, England), Friday, Jul 23, 1954; pg. 8; Issue 52991
  4. Crockfords (ibid)


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