Christopher Sargent

Christopher Birdwood Roussel Sargent (舒展; 4 June 1906 – 8 August 1943) was a schoolmaster, missionary, and bishop of the Anglican Church.

Sargent was born into an ecclesiastical family on 4 June 1906, the son of Church of England priest Douglas Harry Grose Sargent.[1] He was educated at St Paul's School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, then worked as a schoolmaster teaching physics at Wellington College until 1932. At the invitation of Charles Ridley Duppuy, Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong, in 1932 he became the headmaster of the Diocesan Boys' School, Hong Kong. He was ordained as a deacon in 1934[2] and took up the post of diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Fukien ("Bishop in Fukien") in 1938.[3] Sargent died of malaria in Foochow on 8 August 1943.[4]

Materials for a biography of Reverend Sargent were collected by Reverend Robert W. Howard.

References
  1. Who Was Who 1897–1990 (London, A & C Black 1991, ISBN 0-7136-3457-X)
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory1940–1941 Oxford, OUP,1941
  3. Ecclesiastical News Assistant Bishop In Fukien DioceseThe Times Tuesday, Jun 21, 1938; pg. 21; Issue 48026; col G
  4. Obituary The Rt Rev C. B. R. Sargent The Times Wednesday, Aug 11, 1943; pg. 7; Issue 49621; col E
Church of England titles
Preceded by
John Hind		 Bishop in Fukien
1938–1943		 Succeeded by
Michael Chang


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