Arthur Kitching

Who was Arthur Kitching?

Arthur Leonard Kitching was an Anglican missionary, bishop and author.

Kitching was educated at Highgate School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1899 and was after a curate at St Martin’s Birmingham begore going to Uganda as a Church Mission Society missionary. He was at Acholi, Ngora, Mbale and finally Jinja. He was Archdeacon of Bukedi from 1915 to 1922 and examining chaplain and commissary to the Bishop of Uganda from then until his consecration as a bishop on the Upper Nile in 1926. He served in this position for 10 years before returning to England to be rector of All Saints’ Dorchester. He was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Fareham from 1938 to 1945 and Archdeacon of Portsmouth from then until 1952. He served as an assistant bishop in the Diocese of Portsmouth from 1939 to 1959 and died in 1960.