Nelson Wellesley Fogarty
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Nelson Wellesley Fogarty (1871-1933) was the first Anglican Bishop of Damaraland (Namibia) from 1924 to 1933.
[edit] Biography
Nelson Fogarty was born on 1871-09-13 in Canterbury, Kent, England, the son of John Evans Fogary and his wife Mary Ann Mills.
He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury before entering St Augustine's Missionary College in 1890. (He was made an Honorary Fellow in 1924). After achieving a first class pass in the Preliminary Theological Examination in 1893 he went out to South Africa, and was licensed as a catechist in the parish of Stellenbosch, in the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town, on 1893-10-24. He was made deacon by the Metropolitan bishop of Cape Town, William West Jones, on 1894-09-21, and licensed as assistant curate of St. Saviour’s church, Claremont in Cape Town. He moved to Oudtshoorn in 1895, being licensed as assistant curate of St. Jude’s church, Oudtshoorn on 1895-03-26, and serving as acting chaplain to the Oudtshoorn Volunteer Rifles. He was ordained priest by William West Jones in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, on 1896-03-08.
In 1897 he became chaplain to the Bishop of Mashonaland, William Thomas Gaul, in what is now the Church of the Province of Central Africa, and during the Anglo-Boer War was chaplain to the Southern Rhodesian contingent. After the war he served in Basutoland (Lesotho), then part of the Anglican Diocese of Bloemfontein as principal of St Mary's Training College.
In 1915 he was chaplin to the South African forces that invaded German South West Africa and the following year was made Archdeacon of Damaraland. When the missionary Diocese of Damaraland was formed in 1924, be became its first bishop. During his episcopate St George's Cathedral in Windhoek was built.
[edit] Bibliography
- Bishopscourt Archives (n.d.). Catechists Licensed, 1848-1912. (Unpublished manuscript).
- Bishopscourt Archives (n.d.). Letters of Orders, 1848-1985. (Unpublished manuscript).
- Bishopscourt Archives (n.d.). Licences to Clergy, 1848-1963. (Unpublished manuscript).
- Legg (ed.), J.P. (1899). Church Directory of the Church of the Province of South Africa.
- (1981) Dictionary of South African Biography, Vol IV. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council. ISBN 0-409-09183-9.
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Anglican Bishop of Damaraland (Namibia) 1924-1933 |
Succeeded by George Wolfe Robert Tobias |
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