Leslie Brown (bishop)
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The Right Reverend Leslie Brown |
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| Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi | |
| Province | Province of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi |
| In office | 1961–1965 |
| Successor | Erica Sabiti |
| Other posts |
Bishop of Uganda/of Namirembe 1953–1965 Assistant bishop in Oxford 1965–1966 Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich (1966–1978) |
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| Consecration | c. 1953 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 June 1912 |
| Died | 27 December 1999 (aged 87) |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Alma mater | London College of Divinity |
Leslie Wilfrid Brown CBE (10 June 1912 – 27 December 1999) was Bishop of Uganda then Bishop of Namirembe and Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, before returning to the UK and later serving as Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.
Brown was educated at Enfield Grammar School before studying for ordination at the London College of Divinity. After a curacy at St James, Milton, Portsmouth he went out to the Diocese of Travancore and Cochin on the Malabar coast of India in January 1938, working there for the Church Missionary Society, and eventually becoming Principal of the Kerala United Theological Seminary.
In 1952 Brown accepted the post of Bishop of Uganda, despite having doubts because of his support for indigenisation. He was to serve as a bishop in total for 25 years, first as Bishop of Uganda (diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Uganda) until 1960, bridging the period of Ugandan independence, then as Archbishop of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, until 1965.
Upon the division of Uganda into separate dioceses in 1960, Brown remained in post, becoming diocesan bishop of a smaller diocese: the Bishop of Namirembe. The next year, he became Archbishop of the Province, which was initially named the Province of Uganda and Rwanda-Urundi, but soon renamed the Province of Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. The three national churches were later to become three separate provinces, but remained a single provincial unit throughout Brown's tenure.
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