John Poole-Hughes
Deceased Person
1916 – 1988
Who was John Poole-Hughes?
John Worthington Poole-Hughes was a Bishop of South-West Tanganyika and a Bishop of Llandaff.
Educated at Uppingham School and Hertford College, Oxford after wartime service with the Royal Artillery he was ordained in 1948. After a curacy at St Michael and All Angels, Aberystwyth he served as a missionary in East Africa rising to the rank of diocesan Bishop in Tanzania. After serving as Assistant Bishop and as incumbent of Llantwit Major he was appointed to succeed Bishop Eryl Stephen Thomas as Bishop of Llandaff in 1975 and enthroned in the following year.
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- Born
- Aug 8, 1916
- Education
- Hertford College, Oxford
- Died
- Oct 25, 1988
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on July 23, 2013
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