Walter Wade (bishop)

Sydney Walter Wade (called Walter; 21 March 1909 – 10 March 1976) was Suffragan Bishop of Cape Town from 1970 to 1976.[1]

Wade was educated at King Edward VI School, Lichfield and Kelham Theological College; and ordained in 1934.[2] After a curacy in Nottingham he held incumbencies at Kimberley and Upington, in the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman. He was Archdeacon of Bechuanaland from 1954 to 1958; and of Kimberley from 1958 to 1963. He was Dean of Umtata from 1963 to 1967; and Archdeacon of Western Transvaal from 1967 until his appointment to the episcopate. In 1975 he was appointed a Chaplain of the Order of St John.[3]

References
  1. ‘WADE, (Sydney) Walter’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 Accessed 30 Oct 2015
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967-68 London: Oxford University Press 1967
  3. London Gazette
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