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Charles Hope Gill was Bishop of Travancore and Cochin from 1905 to 1924. [1]

Gill was born into an ecclesiastical family [2] on 11 February 1861 and educated at St Edmund's School in Canterbury, King William's College on the Isle of Man and Queens' College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1865 [3] and began his career as a curate at St Peter's, Tynemouth. [4] Later he was a CMS Missionary at Shikarpur and then Jabalpur. From 1898 until his consecration to the episcopate he was its Secretary in India. [5]

He was consecrated a bishop on 18 October 1905 by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey; [6] to serve as the third diocesan Bishop of Travancore & Cochin. On his return to Europe he was Vicar of Gerrard's Cross and then British Chaplain at Hyères. He died on 29 June 1946. [7]

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References

  1. Project Canterbury
  2. He was the son of William Gill, sometime Rector of Hertingfordbury - "Who was Who" 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN   0-7136-3457-X
  3. Ordinations. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 2 June 1885; pg. 12; Issue 31462
  4. Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn) . London: The Field Press. p. 1518.
  5. "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory" London, John Phillips, 1900
  6. "Consecration of bishops" . Church Times (#2230). 20 October 1905. p. 462. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 19 September 2019 via UK Press Online archives.
  7. Bishop C. Hope Gill. The Times (London, England), Monday, 1 Jul 1946; pg. 7; Issue 50491
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Edward Noel Hodges
Bishop of Travancore and Cochin
19051924
Succeeded by
Edward Moore