Henry Baines (bishop), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Baines (bishop)

Anglican bishop

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1905

Date of Death: 29-Nov-1972

Profession: priest

Nationality: New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Henry Baines (bishop)

  • Henry Wolfe Baines (2 February 1905 – 29 November 1972) was an Anglican bishop.Baines was educated at Repton School and Balliol College, Oxford.
  • After theological studies at Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1930 and began his ordained ministry as a curate at the University Church of St Mary the Virgin.
  • From 1934 he was chaplain of St.
  • John's Cathedral, Hong Kong, then Vicar of St Nicholas Radford, Coventry and finally, before his ordination to the episcopate, the Rural Dean of Rugby.
  • In 1949 he became Bishop of Singapore and in 1960 he was translated to be the Bishop of Wellington.
  • He was consecrated bishop on 29 June 1949, by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral (London, UK).

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