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Jean Rigal Elisée (20 September 1927 – 20 September 2017) was an
Episcopalian Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protes ...
bishop in the Gambia and surrounding areas in the last third of the 20th century. Elisée was born in
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. He was educated at
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, Philadelphia. He was ordained deacon and priest in 1952. He served in
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and
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. Elisée was Bishop of Gambia and the Rio Pongas from 1972 to 1986.''
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1980–82'' p294 London:
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, 1983


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1927 births 2017 deaths Episcopal Divinity School alumni Anglican bishops of Gambia and the Rio Pongas American Episcopal clergy American expatriates in Haiti American expatriates in Liberia American expatriates in the Gambia 20th-century American Episcopal priests {{Anglican-bishop-stub