Eric Pike (11 November 1936 – 17 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

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hood at St Paul’s Theological College, Grahamstown and was

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in 1968. He was assistant priest at St John’s,

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and then

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of St Paul’s, Komga. From 1978 he was

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and then suffragan bishop of

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before his election in 1993 to the See of

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as its third

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. He was in office until 2001.

References and sources

* Who's Who 2008: London,

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, 2008 * Crockford's Clerical Directory Lambeth, Church House, 1976, ISBN (invalid) 0108153674, alternate version: , * Pew Leaflet, 20 June 2021 Cathedral of St Michael and St George, 20 June 2021, , .

External links

Wits Historical papers
1936 births 2021 deaths 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 {{Anglican-bishop-stub