Alan Rogers

Who was Alan Rogers?

Alan Francis Bright Rogers was an Anglican Bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning over half a century.

Educated at Westminster City School and King's College London and ordained in 1932, he began his career with a Curacy at St Stephen's, Shepherds Bush. From 1934 he served the Anglican Church in Mauritius, firstly as a missionary priest then as its Archdeacon. Returning to England he became Vicar of Twickenham followed by a spell as Rural Dean of Hampstead before elevation to the Episcopate as Bishop of Mauritius in 1959. Translated to Fulham in 1966, his final appointment was a sideways move to Edmonton four years later. In retirement he continued to serve the church as an Assistant Bishop for a further quarter of a century.