Eric Pike
Eric Pike | |
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Bishop of Port Elizabeth | |
Diocese | Diocese of Port Elizabeth |
In office | 1993–2001 |
Predecessor | Bruce Evans |
Successor | Bethlehem Nopece |
Other post(s) | Suffragan bishop of Grahamstown |
Orders | |
Ordination | 1968 |
Consecration | 1993 |
Personal details | |
Born | 11 November 1936 |
Died | June 2021 |
Denomination | Anglican |
Eric Pike (11 November 1936 - June 2021) was a South African Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Port Elizabeth from 1993 to 2001.
He was educated at Graaff Reinet Teachers’ Training College and was a teacher at Queen’s College Boys’ High School from 1958 to 1965. He trained for the priesthood at St Paul’s Theological College, Grahamstown and was ordained in 1968. He was assistant priest at St John’s, East London and then rector of St Paul’s, Komga. From 1978 he was archdeacon of East London and then suffragan bishop of Grahamstown before his election in 1993 to the See of Port Elizabeth as its third bishop. He was in office until 2001.
References and sources[]
- Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
- Crockford's Clerical Directory Lambeth, Church House, 1976, ISBN (invalid) 0108153674, alternate version: ISBN 0-19-200008-X,
- Cathedral of St Michael and St George, 20 June 2021,
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- 1936 births
- 20th-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops
- Anglican archdeacons in Africa
- Anglican bishops of Port Elizabeth
- 21st-century Anglican Church of Southern Africa bishops
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