Cyril James Tucker CBELondon Gazette- CBE (17 November 19113 September 1992)Janus (DOD) was an Anglican missionary bishop.
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Biography Born in London to Henry Calesdine Tucker and Lilian Beatrice, Cyril was educated at Highgate School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge University News.Degrees conferred at Cambridge The Times (London, England), Monday, 22 February 1937; p. 10; Issue 47615 and ordained in 1936.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 he was deaconed on Trinity Sunday 1935 (16 June) and priest the next Trinity Sunday (7 June 1936) — both times by Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London at St Paul's Cathedral. He served curacies at St Mark's, Dalston and St Barnabas, Cambridge. In 1937 he became Youth Secretary of the British and Foreign Bible Society and in 1939 a Chaplain in the RAFVR.London Gazette- commission resigned When peace returned he became Warden of Monmouth School and in 1949 Chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford, and Chaplain of the Oxford Pastorate.‘Tucker, Cyril James’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online ed'n, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 31 Aug 2012 He was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Cambridge, Rural Dean of Cambridge and Chaplain of the Cambridge Pastorate until 1963 when he was ordained to the episcopate:Ecclesiastical News. New Bishop in Argentina The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 25 June 1963; p. 14; Issue 55736 he was consecrated a bishop by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 18 October 1963 at Westminster Abbey. He was Bishop in Argentina and Eastern South America until 1974.Milmine, Douglas (ed). La Comunión Anglicana en América Latina, Santiago, Chile 1993: printer, Banka Gráfika Ltda, p.16 When he became Bishop, in addition to Argentina itself, the Diocese included Paraguay, Uruguay and the Falkland Islands. In 1969, the five northern provinces of the Argentine Republic were constituted as a separate diocese; in 1973 Paraguay became a separate diocese and jurisdiction over the Falkland Isles passed to the Archbishop of Canterbury.Milmine, Douglas (ed). La Comunión Anglicana en América Latina, Santiago, Chile 1993: printer, Banka Gráfika Ltda, pp.11,16
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