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Intro Bishop of the Seychelles
Was Priest
From Seychelles
Type Religion
Gender male
Birth

6 September 1910

Death

15 March 2004
(aged 93 years)

Star sign Virgo
Education
Sidney Sussex College

George Cardell Briggs CMG OGS (6 September 1910 – 15 March 2004) was the first Bishop of The Seychelles

Born in Warrington, Briggs was educated at Worksop College and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After studying at Ripon College Cuddesdon he was ordained in 1935. He was a curate of St Alban’s Stockport until 1937 when he became a missionary priest in the Diocese of Masabi, Tanzania. He was the Archdeacon of Newala from 1955 to 1964 and then Rector of St Alban’s Dar-es-Salaam until 1969 when he became Warden of St Cyprian’s Theological College, Masasi, his last post before ordination to the episcopate. He resigned his See in 1979 and returned to England as Assistant Bishop of Derby; he returned to Mauritius the next year. He was afterwards an assistant priest in Mwatara, Tanzania, and an honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Worcester until 1990.

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