Eric Trapp

Who was Eric Trapp?

The Rt Rev Eric Joseph Trapp was an Anglican Bishop in the mid 20th century.

Born on 17 July 1910 and educated at Alderman Newton’s School, Leicester and Leeds University, he was ordained after a period of study at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield in 1935. Following a curacy at St Olave’s, Mitcham he emigrated to South Africa where he was Director of the Masite Mission, Basutoland then Rector of St Augustine’s Bethlehem, Orange Free State. Next he was Rector of St John’s, Maseru then a Canon of Bloemfontein Cathedral before his elevation to the Episcopate as the seventh Bishop of Zululand in 1947, a post he held for ten years. He was then Secretary of the SPG until 1970 when he was appointed the fifth Bishop of Bermuda, a post he held for five years. In retirement he served as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of St Albans. He died on 8 September 1993.