Alan Rogers (bishop)

Alan Francis Bright Rogers (12 September 1907 – 16 October 2003)^[1][2] was an Anglican bishop who held three different posts in an ecclesiastical career spanning over half a century.

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, Shepherd's 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.