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About Edward Crowther
- Clarence Edward Crowther (known as Edward; born 4 March 1929) was the sixth Anglican Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman who on appointment was its youngest bishop.Born in Bradford on 4 March 1929 he was educated at the University of Leeds, where he obtained a BA in 1950, LLB in 1952, and LLM in 1953 and at Cuddesdon College for one year (1955/56).Crowther taught criminal and constitutional law at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1952-55.
- He was ordained deacon in 1956 and priest the following year, serving as curate at St.
- Philip and St.
- James' Church, Oxford, in 1956-58.
- After a preaching tour in the United States and a period (1959–64) as a college chaplain at the University of California, Los Angeles, he became Dean of St Cyprian’s Cathedral, Kimberley in South Africa in September 1964, and then its Diocesan Bishop in 1965.
- Crowther was consecrated bishop in Cape Town on 14 November, and he was formally enthroned in St.
- Cyprian's Cathedral on 29 November 1965.
- Two years later he was expelled from the country for his opposition to apartheid.
- In 1970 he returned to California as Assistant Bishop and obtained a doctorate.
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