William Lucas (bishop)

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William Vincent Lucas was the inaugural Bishop of Masasi during the first half of the 20th century. [1]

Born on 20 June 1883 [2] and educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and St Catherine's Society in the same city, he was made deacon on 23 December 1906, by George Kennion, Bishop of Bath and Wells, at Wells Cathedral. [3] After a curacy at St Michael's Shepton Beauchamp he went to Tanzania as a missionary. [4] .

Lucas advocated taking traditional native rituals and adapting them for Christian use, [4] [5] although this work had already been started by native clergy and previous missionaries. Yoruban Bishop James Johnson had noted that the Church should be ‘not an exotic but a plant become indigenous to the soil’. [6]

Lucas was later the provost and sub-dean of Masasi Collegiate Church and a canon of Zanzibar before his ordination to the episcopate. He was consecrated a bishop on Michaelmas (29 September) 1926, by Randall Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. [7] He died on 8 July 1945. [8]

Legacy

Lucas is seen as the Father Founder of Chama Cha Mariamu Mtakatifu. [9] St Stephen's House, Oxford displays a painting created by Lucas during his time at the university. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Friends of Masasi
  2. ↑ "Who was Who" 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007, ISBN   978-0-19-954087-7
  3. ↑ "The Ordinations. On Sunday week" . Church Times . No. 2293. 4 January 1907. p. 26. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 6 March 2021– via UK Press Online archives.
  4. 1 2 Dictionary of African Christian Biography website, Lucas, William Vincent
  5. ↑ JStor website, African Clergy, Bishop Lucas and the Christianizing of Local Initiation Rites: Revisiting 'The Masasi Case' , article by Anne Marie Stoner-Eby published in Journal of Religion in Africa, Vol. 38, Fasc. 2, Inventing Orthodoxy: African Shaping of Mission Christianity during the Colonial Era (2008), pp. 171-208
  6. ↑ National Open University of Nigeria website, The Rise and Growth of Western Christianity in Africa (Course Code: CTH 849), page 102
  7. ↑ "Consecration of three bishops" . Church Times . No. 3323. 1 October 1926. p. 363. ISSN   0009-658X . Retrieved 6 March 2021– via UK Press Online archives.
  8. ↑ The Times, 10 July 1945, p1, "Deaths"
  9. ↑ Anglican Communion website, Anglican Church of Tanzania - Chama cha Mariamu Mtakatifu
  10. ↑ St Stephen’s College Oxford website, St Stephen’s House New (2022-2023), page 19
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Preceded by
Inaugural appointment
 Bishop of Masasi
1926–1944		Succeeded by


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