Alan Rogers (bishop)

Alan Francis Bright Rogers (1907–2003)[1] was an Anglican Bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning over half a century.[2]

The Right Reverend Alan Rogers
Bishop of Edmonton
Church	Church of England
Diocese	Diocese of London
In office	1970–1975
Successor	Bill Westwood
Other posts	Bishop of Mauritius (1959–1966) Bishop of Fulham (1966–1970)
Orders
Consecration	1959
Personal details
Birth name	Alan Francis Bright Rogers
Born	1907 (1907)
Died	2003 (aged 95–96)
Nationality	British
Denomination	Anglican
Education	Westminster City School

Educated at Westminster City School, trained for the priesthood at King's College London and ordained in 1932, he began his career with a curacy at St Stephen's, Shepherds Bush.[3] From 1934 he served the Anglican Church in Mauritius, firstly as a missionary priest then as Archdeacon of Mauritius. Returning to England he became Vicar of Twickenham followed by a spell as Rural Dean of Hampstead before appointment to the episcopate as Bishop of Mauritius in 1959.[4] Translated to become Bishop of Fulham (a suffragan bishop of the Diocese of London with delegated responsibility from the Bishop of London for northern and central Europe) in 1966,[5] his final appointment was a sideways move to become Bishop of Edmonton[6] (another suffragan bishop of that Diocese, but actually ministering there) four years later. That See was erected on 29 May 1970[7] in order to supervise a new district of the diocese created by the experimental area scheme that year.[8]

In retirement he continued to serve the church as an honorary assistant bishop (in the Diocese of Peterborough and then the Kensington area of the London diocese) for a further quarter of a century.