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.^[1]

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).^[2][3]

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,^[4][5] and then its Diocesan Bishop in 1965. Crowther was consecrated bishop in Cape Town on November 14, and he was formally enthroned in St. Cyprian's Cathedral on November 29, 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.

Publications

• Where Religion Gets Lost in the Church^[6]
• The Face of Apartheid^[7]
• Religious Trusts: Their Development, Scope and Meaning^[8]
• Care Versus Cure in the Treatment of the Terminally Ill^[9]
• Intimacy: Strategies for Successful Relationships^[10]

Now retired he lives in France.^[11]

References

1. "Anglicans: Angry Young Bishop". Time. 14 January 1966. Retrieved 2013-09-16.
2. Crockford's Clerical Directory (97th edn. London: Church House Publishing, 2001), p. 177
3. This website states that his LLB and LLM were awarded by the University of Oxford. This contradicts the information in Crockford's Clerical Directory and would be impossible anyway as Oxford does not award the degrees of Bachelor or Master of Laws.
4. "Our Companion Diocese", The Bishop's Newsletter, Vol. XXV, No. 6 (November 21, 1965), p. 4. This newsletter was published by the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan, which at the time was a companion diocese of the Diocese of Kimberley and Kuruman.
5. Cathedral History web site
6. Clarence Edward Crowther (1968). Where religion gets lost in the church. Morehouse-Barlow. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
7. Clarence Edward Crowther (1 January 1971). The Face of Apartheid. New Zealand University Press. ISBN 978-0-7055-0341-9. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
8. Clarence Edward Crowther (1954). Religious Trusts: Their Development, Scope and Meaning. George Ronald. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
9. Clarence Edward Crowther (1975). Care Versus Cure in the Treatment of the Terminally Ill. University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
10. Clarence Edward Crowther; Gayle Stone (1986). Intimacy: Strategies for Successful Relationships. Santa Barbara, Calif. Retrieved 16 September 2013.
11. ”The Episcopal Clerical Directory.” New York: Church Publishing 2005 ISBN 0-89869-219-9